

Yesterday I discussed how I screwed up and lost the domain name for my video blog Videolicio.us and as a result had to buy a new domain, Videolicious.tv, and start rebuilding my traffic from scratch. Here, then, begins a series of posts about how to market a blog.
After configuring Videolicious.tv to point to my blog (this typically involves configuring your domain name settings, your hosting settings if you self-host, and your blog settings to use the new domain), I needed to update my XML Sitemap.
If you’re new to the subject, XML Sitemaps are files intended solely for search engines to read. They tell search engines where to find all the pages on your site so the engines can easily index them. The files are placed in the root directory of a given site (you can see the sitemap for Videolicious.tv at http://videolicious.tv/sitemap.xml) and the file name is always sitemap.xml. You can visit Sitemaps.org to learn more about the subject and I’ve got a list of sitemap generators at my Delicious account here.
If you generate your sitemap manually, you’ll just need to create one using your favorite tool and then upload that file to your root directory. In my case, though, I ... read more >>