Google Sitemaps

April 30, 2006 at 3:54 pm · Filed under Articles and comment

Continuing our run of Google-related posts, if either of the following statements is true, you may be interested in taking advantage of Google Sitemaps:

You want Google to crawl more of your pages.

You want to be able to tell Google when content on your site changes.

From the Sitemaps FAQ:

Google Sitemaps is an experiment in web crawling. Using Sitemaps to inform and direct our crawlers, we hope to expand our coverage of the web and speed up the discovery and addition of pages to our index. By placing a Sitemap-formatted file on your web server, you enable our crawlers to find out what pages are present and which have recently changed, and to crawl your site accordingly.

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