How to add the Sitemap Tag to your Robots.txt file

Sitemap Tag: Add your Sitemap location to robots.txt file so the search engines can find your XML, HTML or TXT Sitemap.

In your robots.txt file on a line by itself, add the following command to tell the search engines your Sitemap location:

Sitemap: <sitemap_location>

The <sitemap_location> should be the complete URL to your Sitemap according to sitemaps.org.

Below is 4WebResults.com's robots.txt file with the Sitemap Tag. 

User-agent: * Sitemap: http://4webresults.com/google-sitemaps Disallow: /createMember Disallow: /portal_memberdata/portal_factory/ Disallow: /*sendto_form$ Disallow: /*folder_contents$ Disallow: /*_edit$ Disallow: /*month:int* Disallow: /*SimpleBlogDaySearch*

We are using our XML Sitemap file.  You can also you use a text Sitemap or HTML Sitemap file.

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.txt

 

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.htm

The following sources were used to put the blog together:

sitemaps.org: http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php#informing

Market Position: http://www.marketposition.com/blog/archives/2007/05/teaching_new_tr_1.html.

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tags: SEO|  Sitemap Tag|  robots.txt