Sitemaps

A sitemap is a good way to help searchbots index your website, and increase your search-engine rankings.

plaintext sitemaps
The easiest way to create a sitemap (for a small website) is to simply list out each webpage on your site in a plaintext file, with one URL per line, saved as " " in your website's root directory.

example plaintext sitemap
The plaintext below, if saved in UTF-8 as " " and placed in the root directory at " ," would help searchbots to index those links and pages for their search engines.

https://en.wikiversity.org/ https://en.wikiversity.org/w/ https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/ https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Main_Page https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/sitemap https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Sitemaps

XML sitemaps
Sitemaps can also be encoded in XML, and saved as " " in the root directory.