The Rage About Google Sitemaps
Every webmaster out there must be raving about one of the latest breakthroughs by Google — Google Sitemaps. What are Google sitemaps to begin with?
Google sitemaps are tools that allow webmasters to inform Google about their site, including any updates or changes. By so doing, Google is able to find their sites a lot more quickly. For webmasters, this is a dream come true. After all, it is every webmaster’s goal to get his site listed and indexed by search engines. Search engine spiders or robots would usually crawl the internet to look for new websites or updated websites. This has become more difficult, however, with websites growing in number by the thousands everyday.
Thankfully, with Google Sitemaps, things have become a lot easier and advantageous both to Google and the webmaster himself. With this recent breakthrough, Google no longer has to use a lot of resources in order to crawl even those websites that have not been updated. With Google Sitemaps, Google’s spider bots are directed only to those new sites or sites that have made or encountered some changes. For the webmaster, using Google Sitemaps gives his site greater chances of being visible on the World Wide Web at a much faster rate.
Sitemaps have been in existence long before the advent of Google Sitemaps. However, with Google Sitemaps, websites are recognized by spider bots and not by humans. Further Google Sitemaps contain information that is of importance to the search engine itself.
You can use Google Sitemaps whether or not your website is commercial in nature. However, if your site has more than 50,000 web pages, you will have to have another Google Sitemaps file.
Getting started with Google Sitemaps is easy. There is a format to be used when creating your Google Sitemaps. Before anything else, though, you must have an account with Google. Once you have done so, and you have created your Google Sitemaps, you can upload it to your web hosting space. Then, submit the location of your sitemaps by logging in to your Google account. When your make some changes to your site, simply update your sitemaps and resubmit to Google.
This service of Google is free, so you can avail yourself of it anytime. It is really advantageous on your part to have Google Sitemaps in your site. While this may not affect your Page Rank, having Goggle Sitemaps in your site can readily tell Google of any changes you may have done in your site, leading to more effective and more efficient website crawling. Another advantage of having Google Sitemaps is the fact that you no longer have to wait when spider bots crawl your site. They automatically do so every time you update or make changes to your site.
With all these advantages, it is easy to understand why a lot of webmasters are raving about Google Sitemaps. With Google Sitemaps in your site, you will certainly go places. So take advantage now of this free offer from Google.
