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Google Sitemap.........seven(7)benefits You Cant Ignore by Nobody: 10:28am On Mar 24, 2016 |
Google Sitemaps enables Webmasters to
Directly Alert Google to Changes and
Additions on a Website and that’s just one
of 7 Benefits.
Telling search engines about new pages
or new websites use to be what the
submission process was all about. But
major search engines stopped using that
process a long time ago.
Google has for a long time depended on
external links from pages they already
know about in order to find new websites.
For webmasters and website owners
Google Sitemaps is the most important
development since RSS or Blog and Ping,
to hit the Internet.
Using RSS and Blog and Ping enabled
webmasters to alert the search engines to
new additions to their web pages even
though that was not the primary purpose
of these systems.
If you’ve ever waited weeks or months to
get your web pages found and indexed
you’ll know how excited we webmasters
get when someone discovers a new way
to get your web pages found quicker.
Well that new way has just arrived in
Google Sitemaps and it’s a whole lot
simpler than setting up an RSS feed or
Blog and Ping. If you haven’t heard of
Blog and Ping it’s a means by which it’s
possible to alert the search engines to
crawl your new website content within a
matter of hours.
If you’re a webmaster or website owner
Google Sitemaps is something you can’t
afford to ignore, even if you’re also using
RSS and/or Blog and Ping
The reason you should start using Google
Sitemaps is that it’s designed solely to
alert and direct Google Search Engine
crawlers to your web pages. RSS and
Blog and Ping are indirect methods to
alert search engines, but it’s not there
primary purpose.
It works now, but like most things it’s
becoming abused. Search Engines will
find ways to combat the abuse as they’ve
done with every other form of abuse
that’s gone before.
Abusing the search engines is a short
term not a long term strategy and in
some cases certain forms of abuse will
get you banned from a search engines
index.
You may also be thinking, don’t we
already have web page meta tags that tell
a search engine when to revisit a page.
That’s true, but the search engine spider
still has to find the new page first, before
it can read the meta tag. Besides that
meta tags are out of favour with many
search engines especially Google,
because of abuse.
If talk of search engine spiders leaves you
confused, they’re nothing more than
software programs that electronically
scour the Internet visiting web sites
looking for changes and new pages.
How often the search engine spider alias
robot, visits your website depends on how
often your site content is updated, or you
alert them to a change. Otherwise for a
search engine like Google they may only
visit a website once a month.
As the internet gets bigger every second
of every day, the problem for search
engines and webmasters is becoming
evidently greater. For the search engines
it’s taking their search spiders longer to
crawl the web for new sites or updates to
existing ones.
For the webmaster it’s taking longer and
becoming more difficult to get web pages
found and indexed by the search engines
If you can’t get web pages found and
indexed by search engines, your pages
will never be found in a search and you’ll
get no visitors from search engines to
those pages.
The answer to this problem at least for
Google is Google Sitemaps
Whilst still only in a beta phase while
Google refines the process, it’s fully
expected that this system, or one very
similar, is here to stay.
Google Sitemaps is clearly a win-win
situation
Google wins because it reduces the huge
waste of their resources to crawl web sites
that have not changed. Webmasters win
because they alert Google through Google
Sitemaps what changes or new content
has been added to a website and direct
Google’s crawlers to the exact pages.
Google Sitemaps has the potential to
speed up the process of discovery and
addition of pages to Google’s index for
any webmaster that uses Google
Sitemaps.
Conventional sitemaps have been used by
webmasters for quite some time to allow
the easier crawling of their websites by
the search engine spiders. This type of
sitemap is a directory of all pages on the
website that the webmaster wants the
search engines or visitors to find.
Without sitemaps a webmaster runs the
risk of webpage’s being difficult to find by
the search engine crawlers, or never being
found at all.
Do I need Google Sitemaps if I already
have sitemaps on my websites ?
Google Sitemaps are different to
conventional sitemaps because they’re
only seen by the Search Engine Spiders
and not human visitors. Google Sitemaps
also contain information that’s only of
value to the search engine in a format
they understand.
Creating Google Sitemaps in 5 steps
1. Create Google Sitemaps in a supported
format ( see end of article )
2. Upload Google Sitemaps to your Web
Hosting space
3. Register for a free Google Account if
you don’t already have one
4. Login to your Google Sitemaps Account
and submit the location of your sitemaps
5. Update your Sitemaps when your site
changes and Resubmit it to Google
From your Google Sitemaps account you
can also see when your sitemap was last
updated and when Google downloaded it
for processing. It will also tell you if there
were any problems found with your
sitemaps.
Google Sitemaps can be used with
commercial or non-commercial websites,
those with a single webpage, through to
sites with millions of constantly updated
pages. However a single Google Sitemaps
file is limited to 50,000 web pages. For
websites with more pages, another
Google Sitemaps file must be created for
each block of 50,000 pages.
If you want Google to crawl more of your
pages and alert them when content on
your site changes, you should be using
Google Sitemaps. The other added benefit
is it’s free.
If you’re expecting this special alert
process with Google Sitemaps to improve
your Page Rank, change the way Google
ranks your web pages, or in any way
guarantee inclusion of your web pages,
Google has made it clear it will make no
difference.
Google Sitemaps web pages are still
subject to the same rules as non Google
Sitemaps pages.
If your site has dynamic content or pages
that aren’t easily discovered by following
links, Google Sitemaps will allow spiders
to know what URLs are available and how
often page content changes.
Google has said that Google Sitemaps is
not a replacement for the normal crawling
of web pages and websites as that will
continue in the conventional way. Google
Sitemaps does however allow the search
engine to do a better job of crawling your
site.
The Google Sitemap Protocol is an XML
file containing a list of the URLs on a site.
It also tells the search engine when each
page was last updated, how often each
page changes and how important each
page is in relation to other web pages in
the site.
Google Sitemaps 7 Benefits You Can’t
Ignore
1. Alert Google to Changes and Additions
to your Website Anytime You Want
2. Your Website is crawled more
Efficiently and Effectively
3. Web Pages are Categorized and
Prioritized exactly How You Want
4. Speed up the process of New Website
and New Web Page Discovery
5. No Waiting and Guessing to see when
Spiders crawl your web pages
6. Google Sitemaps is likely to set the
standard for Webpage Submission and
Update Notification which will extend the
benefits to other Search Engines
7. The Google Sitemaps service is Free
Exactly how to create a Google Sitemaps
file to upload to your website is in the
continuing part of this article in Google
Sitemaps. |
Re: Google Sitemap.........seven(7)benefits You Cant Ignore by kingvectorv(m): 6:52pm On Mar 24, 2016 |
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