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Consumer Auto Parts

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"We've experienced explosive growth with our website since we started working with JRA Website Design. They're outstanding at what they do!"
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Le Limo Limousine

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"Joe (the owner) does a great job with graphic design and web site development. We have been using him since 2003 for all of our projects. He is on time, on budget and fun to work with. I would highly recommend JRA Design."
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San Laurent Hair Salon

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"JRA Design does a great job handling our weekly bulk email campaign."
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East Main Automotive

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"The team at JRA has done an excellent job from our new logo to our site redesign."
Kenny G. East Main Automotive

XML Sitemaps

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What is an XML Sitemap?

In general, this is a list of URLs for your website in a form of XML file (it also known as Google Sitemap because it was introduced first by Google). Besides that it allows you to include additional information about each URL such as the date it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is. XML format ensures that this information can be easily processed on different kinds of computers, applications and systems, so Search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask, AOL etc) won't have any problems with understanding your sitemap files. There are a couple of limitations imposed by Google: a single XML sitemap file can contain not more then 50,000 URLs and may not be larger than 10 Megabytes. 

Why do you need a Sitemap

...because it allows to inform Search Engines about important pages on your website. That increases its visibility to Google, Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex etc, and ensures indexing of the web pages that might not be discovered otherwise. Those provide additional information about your site to searching engines, complementing their traditional methods of crawling the web. All major search engines use the same XML-based protocol for that. This means that having an XML Sitemap will let Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Bing (MSN), and Ask have up-to-date information any time you upload a new map file to your server.

XML Sitemaps are especially helpful if:

 

 


 

 

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