Internet Marketing Tycoon

**MightyMaster** · 06-27-2005, 09:22 AM

Anyone seeing any results from Google Sitemaps? Does it pay to key updating the xml page?

**praveen** · 06-27-2005, 07:23 PM

from another place

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I have been considering the worth of the Google site map
With no use of the Google site map - just added heaps of new pages to a forum and very soon after Google found the main forum pages, yet to find all the threads
Google often spiders based on the Google PR of the site - the higher PR, the more often, earlier and deeper it seems to spider.
So if you are a low PR site, you can wait quite a few weeks for new content to be found by Google.
And even if you are a higher PR site, you can still wait quite a number of days for Google to find all the new pages that have been added.

So Google site maps can get new pages found faster and it is less dependant on the Google PR of your site as to how fast those pages are found and spidered (IMO).
Where Google ranks a page is a lot about Google PR and link text for that page. So once Google has found all those new pages - if those pages have a lot of link text/anchor text for certain important pages on your site, then those important pages will rank higher earlier.
You need to make sure that you have some good links from existing high PR pages to those new pages, and good html site maps, so Google will calculate in good PR for those pages you have created.
It is always one thing for a page to be cached by Google. It is quite something else for it to then be ranked high by Google.

**MightyMaster** · 06-27-2005, 08:56 PM

Thanks for the response ... I just checked my sitemap account and google spidered it. I typed in my domain in google and it brought up all the links. Sitemaps appear to be working ... beware though. Make sure your xml is right though. It picks up the smallest errors ... it found an error on one of my sites and stopped spidering it.

**praveen** · 06-27-2005, 09:01 PM

there is a google sitemap generator somewhere.. let me check my favs and get the link,

simple way is

type out all your urls including http://www.
each one in a single line and save it as xml

done.

**177594** · 07-02-2005, 02:21 AM

yeh i created a sitemap for www.nutriadvice.com and it indexed about 12000 pages within a few days, wheras only about 100 were indexed before, so im pretty happy.

used the generator found at:
http://www.web-design-pros.ca/softwa...Generator.html

**scott bannon** · 07-05-2005, 09:09 PM

I've got to say that I'm real happy with sitemaps so far. Just launched a new project last week, submitted the sitemap to Google on July 2nd, 3 days later I have 40+ pages from the site listed.

It seems to be a great tool for initial launches, now lets see how it pans out in the long term for sites.

Scott