Google Sitemaps Wants Your URLs

Vanessa Fox, a technical writer for Google's Sitemaps product, thinks you should be using Sitemaps with your site today. Here's why. "How do I get into Google?" It's a common refrain found on websites, forums, blogs, and inboxes of tech writers. Google is the Saint Bernard in a pen full of adorable search advertising pugs, and everyone wants a sip of the Googlejuice in the cask the big dog carries. To make it easier for site publishers to drink deeply of the traffic Google can deliver, the company launched Googlebot has crawled within a site, and not just the home page. A Status section of crawl stats displays a bar graph of successfully crawled pages, and those where Googlebot had problems with HTTP errors, URLs that times out or were not followed, or URLs restricted by robots.txt. Sitemaps lists all of these errors by status under an Errors tab in the Site Overview. The Page analysis area of the stats shows how the Googlebot sees one's website. It lists the types of pages and encodings Googlebot finds. Of more interest will be the Common Words section of page analysis. This lists the anchor text Googlebot found most commonly in a site's content, and in external links to a site. An Index stats section provides six typical blog where she posts about Sitemaps issues, the service has a solutions, like programs and websites, exist to support Google Sitemaps. They offer code snippets in a variety of programming languages and plugins that work with CMS and other application platforms. It is important for a website today to be indexed promptly and accurately by Google. Precious few shortcuts exist that offer a legitimate approach to doing this. Google Sitemaps does offer one that any Webmaster can use right now. Tag: Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web |