Creating a Site Map Manually

Search engines let you submit individual URLs and promise to follow all the links they find in order to index your site. To make it especially easy for them to find all the nooks and crannies on your site, you can create a site map with links to all of the most important sections of your site and then submit that map to the search engine, thus ensuring that the proper pages will be noticed and indexed.

To create a site map with your browser:

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Create a new Bookmarks or Favorites Folder.
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On the Web, navigate to the important pages on your site that you want to be sure the search engine finds.
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Add those pages to your new folder.
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Export your Bookmarks or Favorites into a file.
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Open the file in your text ...

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