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Google Site MapsGoogle has recently introduced a free service called called Google Sitemaps. By using the sitemap generator suggested by Google, or your own generator, to create a list of all the URL’s you want indexed; Google suggests they will be able to spider a website quicker and more completely.

In order to complete the process, you need to create and upload a sitemap in one of two formats to your website. Then add it to your list of sitemaps in your free Google account.

I just setup text based sitemaps for Google this last weekend for several sites so, I don’t have first hand experience yet about how fast or completely Google is indexing pages that aren’t already in the index. However, comments I have read from others suggest that within just a few days Google has sent robots to completely spider their sites and new pages have shown up soon afterwards in the Google index.

One word of caution: The Google Sitemap Generator is a bit difficult to understand when setting up to create a sitemap. In fact, I resorted to using a different method available to me to create a text file of all my URL’s and submit that file to Google. I’ll keep you posted on my Google indexing progress.

Go to Google Sitemaps to get started.

Yahoo! News Search Results for google sitemaps

• Google News Sitemaps: One Language Per Sitemap File
30 Jul 2010 at 6:45am
This week we covered the Google one language per page rule and today I spotted a thread specific to how this works with Google News. A Google News Help thread has Googler Inbal saying you should submit a News Sitemap file for each language. Inbal from Google said: If all your languages editions are published on one site, the Google News preference is for one news sitesmaps for multiple languages …


• Daily Search Forum Recap: July 30, 2010
30 Jul 2010 at 2:15pm
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.


• Half of SME websites are not search engine optimised: study
27 Jul 2010 at 10:29am
Many small businesses in the UK are failing to make the most of their online presence, with 47% of SME websites studied having either very basic or no SEO work at all.

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