First, Sign up for Google’s webmaster tools: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
Now it’s time to generate your sitemap, download and install DRKSpider: http://www.drk.com.ar/spider.php
DRKSpider is an open source tool to create sitemaps.
Start up DRKSpider and follow these steps:
- Click File – New
- Enter Site Name
- hit okay
- Once scan finishes click File – Export
- Select “Plain text sitemap” option
- Hit okay
- Save your sitemap .txt file to a path on your webserver (example: www.mysite.com/sitemap)
- Navigate back to Google’s webmaster tools: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
- Click “Site Configuration”
- Click “Sitemaps”
- Input the path to your sitemap .txt file
- That’s it!
Google’s official documentation on sitemaps can be found here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156184.
The best part is this was free and open source! That’s the end of the tutorial