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| Adding a [https://www.sitemaps.org/ sitemap] to your website allows searchbots to find pages much faster and more efficiently, allowing them to be quickly indexed for search engines.  Sitemaps can be saved as either "<code>/sitemap.txt</code>" or "<code>/sitemap.xml</code>" and should be in the root webdirectory ("<code>/</code>"). <ref><code>https://www.sitemaps.org/</code></ref> <ref><code>https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html</code></ref>  Using plaintext (TXT) is much faster and easier than writing extensible markup language (XML).  I recommend keeping the sitemap as plaintext, allowing the SITEMAP protocol to join the ranks of the other plaintext website protocols for <u>[[ROBOTS]]</u>, [https://www.securitytxt.org/ SECURITY], and [https://humanstxt.org/ HUMANS].
| | [[image:hotfrog.jpg|thumb|[Image.]  Cookies for <cite class="n">Nicole Sharp's Website</cite> provide tasty data. <ref><code>[[commons:category:cookies]]</code></ref> <ref><code>[[commons:category:cookies by shape]]</code></ref> <ref><code>[[commons:category:round cookies]]</code></ref>]] |
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| As with all webtext files, you should use an advanced text editor such as [https://www.notepad-plus-plus.org/ Notepad-Plus-Plus] that supports Unix line endings.  Do not use Microsoft Windows Notepad.
| | <u>[[about NikkiWiki|<cite class="u">NikkiWiki</cite>]]</u> and <u>[[about Nicole Sharp's Website|<cite class="u">Nicole Sharp's Website</cite>]]</u> use webanalytics [https://www.microsoft.com/edge/learning-center/what-are-cookies/ cookies] from: |
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| == canonical links ==
| | * [https://developers.cloudflare.com/analytics/web-analytics/ Cloudflare Analytics] <ref><code>https://developers.cloudflare.com/analytics/web-analytics/</code></ref> |
| | * [https://www.matomo.org/features/ Matomo Analytics] <ref><code>https://www.matomo.org/</code></ref> |
| | * [https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/12159447/ Google Analytics] <ref><code>https://analytics.google.com/</code></ref> |
| | * [https://learn.microsoft.com/clarity/setup-and-installation/about-clarity/ Microsoft Clarity] <ref><code>https://clarity.microsoft.com/</code></ref> |
| | * [https://www.yandex.com/support/metrica/ Yandex Metrica] <ref><code>https://metrica.yandex.com/</code></ref> |
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| To create a sitemap, you simply make a plaintext list of each URL (uniform resource locator) for the website with one URL per line and no other content (no comments).  Only URLs for a single domain should be included — do not add URLs for subdomains or alias domains.  You should also only list canonical URLs.  This means that if a particular webpage can be accessed from multiple URLs, only one URL should be listed for that webpage in the sitemap.
| | == open-source analytics == |
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| For example, there are many different ways to access <u>[[Nicole Sharp's Homepage]]</u>:
| | NikkiAnalytics with [https://www.matomo.org/matomo-on-premise/ Matomo Analytics] and <u>[[NikkiWiki]]</u> with [[mw:Main Page|Wikimedia MediaWiki]] both run on [[wikipedia:free open-source software|free open-source software]] built from [[wikipedia:PHP|PHP]] (Personal Homepage Hypertext Preprocessor). <ref><code>https://www.matomo.org/matomo-on-premise/</code></ref> <ref><code>[[mw:Main Page]]</code></ref> <ref><code>[[wikipedia:PHP]]</code></ref> |
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| <code><pre>
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| https://www.nicolesharp.net/ | |
| https://www.nicolesharp.net/index.htm
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| https://www.nicolesharp.net/index.html
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| https://www.nicolesharp.net/w/
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| https://www.nicolesharp.net/w/index.php
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| https://www.nicolesharp.net/w/index.php?title=NikkiWiki
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| https://www.nicolesharp.net/w/index.php?title=Main_Page
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| https://www.nicolesharp.net/w/index.php?title=NikkiWiki:Main_Page
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| https://www.nicolesharp.net/wiki/
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| https://www.nicolesharp.net/wiki/NikkiWiki
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| https://www.nicolesharp.net/wiki/Main_Page
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| https://www.nicolesharp.net/wiki/index
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| </pre></code>
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| The canonical URL though is
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| : <u><code>[[about Nicole Sharp's Homepage|https://www.nicolesharp.net/wiki/NikkiWiki]]</code></u>
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| since all of the other URLs redirect to that URL.
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| === MediaWiki ===
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| In [[mw:Main Page|Wikimedia MediaWiki]], canonical URLs are provided by adding
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| to "<code>LocalSettings.php</code>".
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| == no subdomains ==
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| Here are even more ways to access Nicole Sharp's Homepage:
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| https://nicolesharp.net/
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| https://www.nicolesharp.net/ | |
| https://web.nicolesharp.net/
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| https://en.nicolesharp.net/
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| https://eng.nicolesharp.net/
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| https://us.nicolesharp.net/
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| https://usa.nicolesharp.net/
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| https://wiki.nicolesharp.net/
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| https://w.nicolesharp.net/
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| http://www.nicolesharp.net/
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| http://nicolesharp.net/
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| http://nicolesharp.altervista.org/
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| http://nicolesharp.dreamhosters.com/
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| https://nicolesharp.dreamhosters.com/
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| With the exception of "<code><nowiki>https://www.nicolesharp.net/</nowiki></code>", none of these other URLs should be included in "<u><code>https://www.nicolesharp.net/sitemap.txt</code></u>".  All of the URLs should have the same protocol (either all HTTPS [Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure] or all HTTP [Hypertext Transfer Protocol]) and all of the URLs should be on the same subdomain (for example, either all with "<code>www</code>" or all without "<code>www</code>").
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| == example ==
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| The following "<code>/sitemap.txt</code>" example gives a compliant sitemap for "<u><code>[[Nicole Sharp's Website|https://www.nicolesharp.net/]]</code></u>":
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| <code><syntaxhighlight lang="text">
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| https://www.nicolesharp.net/wiki/NikkiWiki
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| https://www.nicolesharp.net/wiki/about_NikkiWiki
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| https://www.nicolesharp.net/wiki/Nicole_Sharp
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| https://www.nicolesharp.net/wiki/license_for_Nicole_Sharp's_Website
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| https://www.nicolesharp.net/wiki/analytics_for_Nicole_Sharp's_Website
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| https://www.nicolesharp.net/wiki/donations
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| https://www.nicolesharp.net/wiki/security
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| </syntaxhighlight></code>
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| Only canonical URLs are included, all of the URLs have the same protocol ("<code>https://</code>"), and all of the URLs are on the same subdomain ("<code>www.nicolesharp.net</code>").  Each new subdomain will need its own sitemap.
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| == ROBOTS ==
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| Once your sitemap is completed, you can add it to the Robots Exclusion Protocol to be indexed by searchbots.  An example "<code>/robots.txt</code>" with a sitemap is given below.
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| <code><highlight lang="robots">
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| == see also == | | == see also == |
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| * <u><code>https://www.nicolesharp.net/sitemap.txt</code></u>
| | * <code>https://www.microsoft.com/edge/learning-center/what-are-cookies/</code> |
| * <code>https://www.sitemaps.org/</code>
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| * <u><code>[[ROBOTS]]</code></u>
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| * <code>https://www.securitytxt.org/</code> | |
| * <code>https://humanstxt.org/</code>
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| == references == | | == references == |
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| <code>bots, CANONICAL, development, hyperlinks, indexing, links, ROBOTS, robots.txt, searchbots, SITEMAP, sitemap.txt, TXT, URLs, web, webcrawlers, webcrawling, webdevelopment, weblinks, WWW</code> | | <code>analytics, Clarity, Cloudflare, cookies, GA, Matomo, Metrica, NikkiAnalytics, privacy, tracking, webanalytics, webcookies, webtracking</code> |
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| {{#seo:|keywords=bots, CANONICAL, development, hyperlinks, indexing, links, ROBOTS, robots.txt, searchbots, SITEMAP, sitemap.txt, TXT, URLs, web, webcrawlers, webcrawling, webdevelopment, weblinks, WWW}} | | {{#seo:|keywords=analytics, Clarity, Cloudflare, cookies, GA, Matomo, Metrica, NikkiAnalytics, privacy, tracking, webanalytics, webcookies, webtracking}} |
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