Today, I will show you a simple technique you can use to make the Google love your website.

This technique will also help your website get indexed and ranked faster in the search engines.

The technique is sitemap submission.

Very few marketers have sitemaps on their websites, and even fewer marketers submit their sitemaps to Google and other search engines like Yahoo and Bing.

Sp what is a sitemap and why should you have one?

A sitemap is a map to the layout of your website.

They are very useful because they:

1) Make the search engine bots/spiders job easier.
2) Get your pages indexed faster.
3) Help your users find the content they want on your site.

There are 2 types of sitemaps:

1) HTML sitemaps for human viewers of your website.
2) XML sitemaps for the search engines.

This is how you generate your sitemap and submit it to the search engines.

STEP 1: Generate your sitemap:

Go to http://www.xml-sitemaps.com
Enter your website address.
Click the start button (this will generate your sitemap).
Download these 2 sitemaps: uncompressed XML sitemap and HTML sitemap
Upload both of these sitemaps to your server.

So if your site is www.yourwebsite.com and you upload both sitemaps, they will look like this:

yourwebsite.com/sitemap.xml
yourwebsite.com/sitemap.html

For the HTML version of the sitemap, link to it at the bottom of your website with “sitemap” as the anchor text.

For the XML version of the sitemap, you need to submit it to the search engines, which brings us to step 2.

STEP 2: Submit your sitemap

Submit to Google:

Create a Google Webmasters account at http://www.google.com/webmasters
Submit your website by following the simple instructions.
Submit your XML sitemap by following the simple instructions.

Submit to Yahoo:

Create a Yahoo! Site Explorer account at http://www.siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com
Submit your website by following the simple instructions.
Submit your XML sitemap by following the simple instructions.

Submit to Bing:

Create your Bing Webmaster Tools account at http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster
Submit your website by following the simple instructions.
Submit your XML sitemap by following the simple instructions.

For all the search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing), re-generate and re-submit your sitemap every time you make significant changes to your website.

There you have it, a simple way to get the search engines to love your website, and get you indexed and ranked faster!