About the Google Sitemaps Knowledge Base Project

Browse the index or use the site search to find the topic related to your Google Sitemaps question. If the short answer isn't enough, follow the links to more detailed information.

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Google Sitemaps Team Interview

Neither the generic official Google Sitemaps FAQ, nor the various approaches to provide in-depth knowledge on the most common Google Sitemaps related questions from a Webmaster's perspective, solved the problem of repetitive topics in the Google Sitemaps Group. Questions like "How long does it take to get indexed after a Google Sitemap submission?" were posted several times a day in countless variations. Regular posters answering the same questions over and over got frustrated, and ignored repetitive topics, or went to harsh-mode every now and then.

The Google Sitemaps Knowledge Base Project tries to provide easy to find solutions to the most common problems and misunderstandings, as well as guides on particular tasks. Each topic can and should be discussed in the Google Sitemaps Group and is signed by a contributor:

Cristina Wood from Asymptoticdesign, mastering Google's free sitemap generator,
John, aka Johannes Müller, inventor of the free Google Sitemap generator GSitemapCrawler,
Shawn K. Hall, CEO of the Web services empire 12 Point Design,
Tobias Kluge, inventor of the free Google Sitemaps generator phpSitemapNG,
Vanessa Fox from Google's Sitemaps Team (thanks for the permission to repost articles and helpful advice from other sources),
Sebastian from Smart IT Consulting (editor).