Index Your New Pages Quickly By Using Google Sitemaps

Index your new Pages Quickly by using Google sitemaps

Google has provided many powerful tools for web masters. Some of them are Google analytics, Google sitemaps, Google alerts, Google trends.

Google analytics: Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site.

Google sitemaps: Google sitemaps helps your site to be indexed by Google easily. This tool can also be used to diagnose any problems while crawling your site.

Google alerts: Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.

Google Trends: Google Trends allow you to compare the searches.

In this Article we will discuss about Google sitemaps.

Sitemap is an xml file which stores the Urls of all the pages of your website. If you can create a sitemap for your website and submit to Google then all your pages will be quickly indexed. Any new pages created can also be indexed quickly by using sitemaps.

Before submitting a sitemap to Google , user has to pass authentication. I.e. he has to verify himself as the owner of the website. Google allows two methods of verification. One is placing a custom Meta tag provided by the Google to be Placed on the root page of your website. Other is adding a new html page to your website.

After verifying your site you can see the below statistics for your site

o Http errors

o Not Found Pages

o Urls Not followed

o Unreachable Urls

o Urls time Out

If you don't have much knowledge of xml and its syntax you can even submit a simple text file containing the urls of all the pages in the web site. Single url per single page is allowed in one single line.

Example of the text file

http://www.dummysite.com/page1

Http: //www.dummysite.com/page2

The advantages of using Google sitemaps are:

One can know whether his site is successfully index in Google.

One can also identify the potential problems in crawling his website.

One can quickly index new pages by submitting updated site maps to Google.

Google sitemaps is a great tool for the webmasters in getting their site indexed with Google easily and quickly.

Parveen Kumar Devatha

Seo Expert for the last 4 years working on google linking algorithms.

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How to Use Google Sitemaps to Market Your Business

A sitemap is like an index of your website. It is written in XML, a form of markup language for the internet that allows you to exchange documents on the internet.

It isn't necessary that you know this in order to use sitemaps. What is important is that you create one, add it to your site, and then use it to get your site indexed by the search engines, especially Google.

Once you have built your website and added all of the content to it, your next step is to build your sitemap. Google offers plenty of tools you may use in its Webmaster tools section. If you are using a content management system, like Wordpress, you may want to check first and see if there is a script that will generate the sitemap for you. This will save you a lot of time.

If you don't have any type of scripts available, then you will need to find a sitemap building tool. There are three types of tools: scripts you may add to your site, software, or online tools you may use. What you choose to use will depend on your level of expertise, as well as your budget. Some tools are free, and others you will have to pay to use them.

If you want to use online tools, then do a search in your favorite search engine for "free sitemap generator". You may also visit the Webmaster Tools section at Google for a list of scripts and software they recommend.

Download your tools and create your sitemap. Once you have created your sitemap then you need to upload it to your website. Make sure you put it in the main directory of the website you have created the sitemap for. (You will need to know the path to this file when you submit to Google. It will look something like this: http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml, and make sure you name it sitemap.xml.)

If you don't have a Google account, you will need to sign up for one. It's free. Sign up and then log into the Google Webmaster Tools section. When you first log in, you will see the dashboard. It will ask you to add a site. Type in the URL to your website, like this: yourdomain.com.

The next step is to verify your site. There are two ways to do this: a verification file or a meta tag in the header of your index file. Either upload your verification document or add the tag to your index and then reload the index.

Once you have completed this part, click on the link in the sidebar that says "Sitemap". This is where you will add the link to your sitemap. This is very important. Although Google will begin to index your site, they won't index your site through your sitemap, which is faster. The reason is that they won't know your sitemap exists.

Finally, check for errors. Google offers an extensive collection of tools to help you analyze your site and check for problems. If you get any errors, read the documentation Google will offer you to help you solve the problem.

My First Website - Using Sitemaps

When you create a new website it will be indexed as soon as the crawlers encounter a link to it. In general, you don't have to submit any information to search engines because the web is based on links. If there is a page then there must be also some links that point to this page. Otherwise the page is probably not worth indexing. However, there are situations where crawlers can not discover all the pages you have. This is where you can help them with sitemaps.

Sitemap is an XML file with defined structure. It contains information about all the pages of the website. All major search engines provide a way to submit sitemap files. Google, for example, uses Webmasters Tools as a place where you can submit sitemaps.

The main purpose of the sitemap is to inform search engines and crawlers about all the pages you have. Using this information bots, spiders and crawlers can visit pages even if there is no link pointing to them. But there is also another more important function. By submitting a sitemap file you can track how many pages are indexed by the search engine. This information is very important because in the case you find out that not all pages are indexed you may have a problem. In many cases pages with little or no content will not be indexed. This is normal. Less "normal" is when some article page is not indexed. In some cases you have to wait for a while, while in other cases the reason may be duplicate content or any other reason that makes search engine to think that this page is not worth indexing.

You can also add images, videos, code and geo information to the sitemap file. This way you can inform Google, Yahoo and Bing with all the stuff you think is worth indexing. More information about this possibility can be found at the Google Webmaster Central Blog.

Creating a sitemap file is pretty easy. All popular content management systems including Wordpress and Joomla have an extension which can automatically create a sitemap file from all the pages of the website. This way you don't have to worry about the file structure and links. There is also a possibility for websites that have no such automatic solution. There are many scripts that can crawl the site by following internal links. Using this information they create the file which can be submitted to search engines.