Google Sitemap
Posted by searchegnineoptimizer on May 30, 2008
The main advantage of the Google XML sitemap is that it allows you to specifically inform search engines about URL’s that appear on your website which are available for crawling. The Google sitemaps is especially beneficial for webmasters, as this enables them to include additional and more specific information regarding URL’s. For example when each website was last updated and how often it may change, this endorses the search engines to crawl each site in a more intelligent manner.
Sitemaps can be extremely advantageous when the user is unable to fully reach every area or region of the website by following links. To put this into perspective, basically any particular website where certain pages are not accessible through a search form would vastly improve from creating a sitemap and the concluding to submit this to search engines.
It’s essential that you are fully aware that the sitemap protocol will supplement, but will not completely replace the actual crawl-based mechanisms that search now use to locate URL’s.
It’s also imperative that you recognize this protocol does by no means guarantee that your web pages will be designated in search indexes.
