The Dev-Friendly Handoff: Eliminating Manual Data Entry with XML/CSV Exports
For digital and creative agencies, the transition from a finalized sitemap to a live development environment is often where projects lose momentum. You have spent weeks perfecting the information architecture, color-coding page statuses to track progress, and getting that crucial architectural sign-off from the client. However, if your handoff process involves a developer manually typing …
Beyond the Box: Using Color-Coded Sitemaps to Manage Client Expectations
In the fast-paced world of digital and creative agencies, managing client expectations is not just a best practice, it’s an art form. From initial pitches to final architectural sign-off, clear communication and tangible deliverables are paramount. This is where a powerful sitemap tool, specifically one with robust color-coding capabilities, becomes an indispensable asset. Forget those …
The Friday Sign-Off Secret: How Real-Time Guest Editing Saved a $20k Project
Every agency knows this moment. It is 4:47 pm on a Friday. The proposal is approved. The scope is locked. The build is queued for Monday. All that is left is one final sign-off on the sitemap. And then the email lands. “Can we just tweak a few things in the navigation?” This is the …
The 1,500-Page Migration: How We Used WriteMaps Crawler to Audit a Legacy Mess
Every digital agency has faced “The Beast.” You know the one: a legacy website that has grown unchecked for a decade, sprawling into a chaotic labyrinth of broken links, duplicate content, and forgotten subdirectories. Recently, one of our partner agencies was tasked with migrating a 1,500-page enterprise site. The client’s goal was a total redesign, …
The Ultimate Guide to Optimizing Your Website for Conversions
You had a great idea to build your website for a service you render, an experience you’ve curated, or a product that you want to sell. You chose a web company or maybe even decided to DIY and get involved in the entire process. Now, your website looks like what you want it to (or …
✅ The Website Structure Improvement Checklist ✅
So you’re looking at your website structure for a new website or redesign. That’s good, it’s worth your time. Just like in construction where “a structure is only as stable as its foundation”, the same applies to your website. Without the right website structure: it’s extremely easy to to confuse and lose visitors due to …
How to create a sitemap in 2023
“How to create a sitemap?” you ask… well there’s a few different kinds of sitemaps: XML Sitemap – for search engines to know which of your website pages you want to be crawled Visual Sitemap – a diagram of the pages you want in your new or redesigned website HTML Sitemap – a page on …
How to find your sitemap
How to find your sitemap for your website is just a matter of looking in the right places. If one exists, these steps will help you find it 99% of the time. Note that we’re talking about an XML sitemap throughout this article. Updated August 2023 to include a link to automatic sitemap finder tool …
Site Mapping Guide: All your sitemap questions answered
Site mapping can sound like a daunting topic. I used to think so myself – but the basics are fairly simple to understand. It’s easy to get lost in the detail, so I’m gonna walk you through exactly what you need to know about ‘what are they’, ‘when to use them’, and ‘how to create’ …
How to submit your sitemap to Google
Submit your sitemap to Google because ‘SEO reasons’ – they say. But what does that even mean and how do you actually do it? Before we start, let’s just be clear on what some of the above words mean: Sitemap – in this case we are referring to a sitemap.xml file (not Visual sitemaps or …