I've had several conversations in regards to SEO (search engine optimization) optimization in the past few weeks. I started a large optimization campaign on GM Performance tuning about 6 months ago. Since, I've managed to get over 60,000 pages on google, rank among the highest in general GM searches (GM Tuning, GM Performance, etc.), and traffic has tripled. Naturally, this has made my revenue via google adsense increase to cover my costs of the website via organic traffic (first time EVER organic traffic is making money versus paid sponsorships).

I wanted to take a moment to summarize what a sitemap is. A sitemap is a page which contains an organized listing of links to all pages within the website. Think of it as a table of contents of a book, telling you what the book contains and where to find it.

For my SEO work I use high level applications to generate sitemaps for dynamic content. However, several free tools are readily available on-line to create a sitemap for you.

Start your journey here, http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

Go ahead and make a sitemap and once done use Google Webmaster Tools to submit the sitemap, once uploaded on your server, to Google.

Once a month I urge you to update your sitemap to ensure the search engines continue to find it.

I promise you if you create a solid sitemap YOU will see an increase in traffic.