Google Sitemaps: RSS For The Entire Website?

Well, not really. But Google Sitemaps does employ XML technology in order to provide its program members the opportunity to have their site crawled after they make updates or alterations.

WebProWorld Before we get ahead of ourselves and in case you haven't heard, yesterday, Google Blog, Engineering Director Shiva Shivakumar indicated why Google launched Sitemaps: "Initially, we plan to use the URL information webmasters supply to further improve the coverage and freshness of our index. Over time that will lead to our doing an even better job of delivering more search results from more websites." Shiva also gave an extensive interview to Danny Sullivan over at the SocialPatterns.com, SEM Michael Nguyen broke down an example of his Sitemaps' XML code, line-by-line; in order to shed some light on what's actually being done. The XML file must also the URL of each page you want to be in the Sitemaps program. If you have four pages that undergo frequent change, all 4 page URLs should be listed, if you have an entire site that you want included, you have to include the URL of each page. By employing the changefreq and priority XML tags, you can also indicate how important each page is and how frequently the page changes. After the XML is complete, you must submit it to the Sitemaps program. This is where the Google account comes in. Once the URL of the sitemap is submitted, your task is complete. There are a couple of methods you can use in order to get an XML sitemap. A Nathan Weinberg says, it'd be stupid not to. An additional area of interest is that Google made Sitemaps as open-source as possible at least on the XML end. By making the sitemap generator in Python and releasing it under the Someone who emailed me installed the sitemap generator on his webserver, and evidently the server went boom... or it at least was overtaxed. Here's a quote from his post discussing the event: "Running it brought down my 3200MHz Pentium 4 running Debian Linux and 2 GB of RAM." Read Murdok. Visit Murdok for the

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