This is the third installment about SEO or search engine optimization for Guatemala, Antigua and Lake Atitlan.
Antigua Guatemala has 160 plus hotels, most with web sites. You have 170 restaurants in Antigua Guatemala and how many tour companies. Most or all have web sites attempting to be found on line.
Take for example http://www.antiguatours.net/ this is Elizabeth Bell’s web site. I like what Elizabeth Bell has done to preserve Antigua. Now that said her web site is missing something that all search engines need to understand how to place her site in a Google search result.
Elizabeth Bell’s web site lacks a single little file http://www.antiguatours.net/sitemap.xml. This file sitemap.xml tells all search engines about the content of her web sites. Sorry you do not have one Elizabeth.
If you want to find out about sitemap.xml files read this information below.
www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml
With the sites structure or book organized and described correctly a site requires a sitmap.xml structure. Following the described perfect SEO structure, your site is now ready to be verified with Google and Bing webmaster tools. The process is simple, you have a Google web master tools account and you add your site. Google generates a piece of code to be placed in your site to prove you are the site owner. Once verified, the process is to add your sitemap.xml file into Google webmaster tools.
The purpose of this file is to tell the search engines about your site, its content, and how to follow your story. Without it, some of the indexing will occur scattered. We find in many cases that while a site may have a complete SEO structure, the site does not have a sitemap.xml file. Please do not confuse a site map that shows the navigation of your site with a sitemap.xml file.
You will find this file by typing, http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml. If you get a page not found, then Google cannot read your sites content structure in order to place your content in the proper search result. The same process is used with Bing.
How a Search Engines Works
Search engines for the most part are complex databases. Search engines place values on the content within your site and make the choices where this content will appear in a search result category, term or phrase most relevant to your content and how a human will use a specific search terms or phrases. The goals of SEO is to make available a sites content, presented in a structured and targeted format, that the search engines can interpret and make a decision on where that content will appear in a search result. in order to tell Google’s database about your site. You will find this file by typing, http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml. If you get a page not found, then Google cannot read your sites content structure in order to place your content in the proper search result. The same process is used with Bing.
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