If your website's pages aren't in the databases of the major search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN they can't be found by people searching for your products and services. And if your web pages can't be found, you're losing business opportunities.

There was a time when you had to wait for the search engines to "crawl" your website, and then hope they didn't miss anything. But now you don't have to wait around for the search engines to find, index or update the pages on your website when (and if) they get around to it. You can take control of your online destiny with a Sitemap.

What is a Sitemap?

A Sitemap is a list of all the pages in your website, put together in a way the search engines can read. Once your Sitemap is created, it's uploaded to your web server and the search engines are directed to its location. The search engines then read your Sitemap and catalog your web pages in their databases, where they have a chance to be found by security buyers. (Want to see what a Sitemap looks like? Take a look at ours.)

This process has some very important benefits. First, it ensures that all of the pages on your website are indexed. It also speeds up the frequency with which your website is "crawled" and updated. And combined with search engine optimization, it helps your web pages rank higher in search results.

Don't Let Your Website Be Invisible to Customers

As the saying goes, "Showing up is half the battle." Nowhere is this more true than online marketing. Because when it comes to maximizing results from your website the most important success factor is being found by your potential customers.

That's why using a Sitemap is so important. A Sitemap ensures that the search engines catalog all of your website's most important pages, update them regularly, and prioritize them the way you want them prioritized. So they're ready to be served up to security shoppers at the moment they're ready to buy.

Here's what the search engines themselves have to say about the benefits of a Sitemap:

Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google's normal crawling process. We use the data in your Sitemap to learn about your site's structure, which will allow us to improve our crawler schedule and do a better job crawling your site in the future. In most cases, webmasters will benefit from Sitemap submission. ~ Google

Using Sitemap protocol supplements the other methods that we use to discover URLs. Submitting a Sitemap helps Yahoo! crawlers do a better job of crawling your site. ~ Yahoo

A Sitemap enables you to provide Webmaster Center with a comprehensive list of the content you would like Live Search to crawl. Sitemaps help search engines discover and index more content on your website. ~ Windows Live Search (MSN)

Don't lose business by leaving your online visibiity to chance. Have us create and submit a Sitemap for your website for only $49. It's one of the best investments you can make to ensure online marketing and sales success.