Web Special Files

Create these Web Special Files in the root folder

.htaccess

Contains the permanent 301 redirect to unify your website with and without “www” + Names the Error page + Redirects pages

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com	: Unify URLs
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]	: Unify URLs
ErrorDocument 404 /error-page.html	: Error page Name
redirect permanent /old.html http://www.domain.com/new.html	: Redirect pages
…	: (repeat for more redirects)

 

Generate your .htaccess

sitemap.xml

File that lists the URLs for your website

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″ ?>
<urlset xmlns=”http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84″>
<url>
<loc>http://www.domain.com/page.html</loc>	: Existing page
<priority>0.9</priority>	: Page Priority 0 to 1
<lastmod>2013-12-31</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
</url>
…	: (repeat for more pages)
</urlset>

 

Generate your sitemap.xml

robots.txt

File that lists files and folders that Google Spider should not crawl + Names the Sitemap

User-Agent: *	: Applies to all Robots
Disallow: /folder/	: Folder
Disallow: /file	: File
…	: (repeat for more foldres/files)
sitemap: http://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml	: Sitemap Name

 

error-page.html

File containing the 404 error page message