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Everything you need to know about Google Sitemaps
In June 2005, Google® has launched a service called Google® SiteMaps to optimize Googlebot's web site crawling. It allows webmasters to submit new/modified URLs to Google's spider Googlebot. Google SiteMap submissions have no impact on rankings on Google's SERPs nor will they influence PageRank™ calculations, but most probably they will help webmasters to get their new stuff crawled by Googlebot faster than before. Although we can't predict how or how much this new service, which is still in BETA state, will help site owners, we tell you how to make use of Google SiteMaps. [Update July 2005: It works like a charm. It even works better than expected. It improves search engine visibility to a great degree, as long as webmasters care what they submit to Google.]
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What is a Google SiteMap and how can this service work for you?
Understanding the Google SiteMap Protocol
How the communication between Google and the web site owner works
Populating the sitemap.xml File
How to populate the sitemap.xml file honestly, and nevertheless getting the most value out of its submission to Google
How to Create a Dynamic Google SiteMap XML File
Make your sitemap.xls file dynamic to ensure it delivers your recent changes whenever it is fetched by Google's bot
Ask Googlebot to Crawl New and Modified Pages on Your Web Site
How to submit your sitemap to Google and how to inform Googlebot about new and changed content
Google's sitemap program provides detailed crawler reports which make it easy to fix issues like broken links, conflicts with robots.txt exclusions etc. etc. in no time. There is even a great robots.txt validator.
Is Google Sitemaps an Index Wiper?
Ensure your web site is in a pretty good shape before you submit a sitemap
Google Sitemaps Myths and Fictions
About site owners influencing Google's rankings via sitemaps and other fictions
Read here what webmasters have to say about their experiences with Google Sitemap, starting with the first announcement
Links to Google SiteMap Tools and Generators
Web sites without an underlying database and many smaller sites can't work with the dynamic approach to fully automate the Google SiteMaps channel outlined here, so here you go ...
Professional Services / Implementation of Google SiteMaps
If you prefer to buy your Google Sitemaps implementation, instead of bothering with many technical details...
Author: Sebastian
Last Update: Saturday, June 04, 2005 Web Feed
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