So you want a Sitemap...
Google Sitemaps provides more thorough crawl coverage and fresher search results
to help people find more of your web pages. It's also a "smarter crawl" as it
allows search marketers to tell Google when a page was last modified (how
frequently it changes) and its importance in your site. If that were not enough
to motivate you to create a Google Sitemap immediately, they are also featuring
some very detailed reports:
- Query and query click stats (under what keywords Google returns pages from
your site and the top search query clicks on your site)
- Crawl stats (whether pages were crawled successfully) as well as any HTTP
errors, unreachable URLs and the PageRank of pages in Google distribution
- Easy access to advanced search techniques to determine the number of indexed
pages, the pages that refer to your URL, the pages that link to your URL and the
current cached page.
So if you simply cannot figure out how to upload your sitemap to Google there
are some very nice tools that Google recommends. I tried a product from
SiteMapBuilder.net yesterday and I have to say it was pretty easy. I am still
waiting to have my sitemap verified by Google, but the process of building the
sitemap was painless. SitemapBuilder allowed me to extract links, prevent the
crawling of certain URLs, edit and delete link properties, generate a Google
Sitemap, save it in the proper Google Sitemap format and generate reports. I
highly recommend SiteMapBuilder
if you do not have the technical know-how to create a sitemap on your own -
best of all - it's freeware.
Pete Prestipino - WSM Managing Editor
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