Saturday, June 04, 2005

Google launch beta Sitemaps

Google Sitemaps - Welcome!: "Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to help improve your coverage in the Google index. It's a collaborative crawling system that enables you to communicate directly with Google to keep us informed of all your web pages, and when you make changes to these pages.
With Google Sitemaps you get:
Better crawl coverage to help people find more of your web pages
Fresher search results
A smarter crawl because you can provide specific information about all your web pages, such as when a page was last modified or how frequently a page changes

Creating your sitemaps is easy
Use the Sitemap Generator to create an XML Sitemap or submit a simple text file with all your URLs.

Get started today — it's free
Send us your sitemap today and help increase the visibility of your web pages."

Google Sitemaps Help
Google Sitemaps FAQ
Google Groups : google-sitemaps

Danny Sullivan of searchenginewatch.com blogs Q&A session with Shiva Shivakumar, engineering director and the technical lead for Google Sitemaps.

Google Blog: "Posted by Shiva Shivakumar: We're undertaking an experiment called Google Sitemaps that will either fail miserably, or succeed beyond our wildest dreams, in making the web better for webmasters and users alike. It's a beta 'ecosystem' that may help webmasters with two current challenges: keeping Google informed about all of your new web pages or updates, and increasing the coverage of your web pages in the Google index."

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