Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[ Philroche.net - Philip Roche -] Google Sitemaps Help: Google Sitemaps is an experiment in web crawling. Using Sitemaps to inform and direct our crawlers, we hope to expand our coverage of the web and improve the time to inclusion in our index. By placing a Sitemap-formatted file on your webserver, you enable our crawlers to find out what pages are present and which have recently changed, and to crawl your site accordingly.

 [hatch.org: Steven Hatch's Weblog] links for 2005-06-06: API Web Service) GoogleSitemaps"GoogleSitemaps is an easy way for you to help improve your coverage in the Google index. It's a collaborative crawling system that enables you to communicate directly with Google to keep us informed of all your web pages, and when you make changes to th (tags:

[nommune] Google sitemap protocol and WordPress sitemap generator: Sitemaps are particularly beneficial when users can not reach all areas of a Web site through a browseable interface — i.e. users are unable to reach certain pages or regions of a site by following links. For example, any site where certain pages are only accessible via a search form would benefit from creating a Sitemap and submitting it to search engines.

 [Jeremy Zawodny's blog] Google Sitemap vs. Ping Servers: Now the blog-pings are a different thing. They are widely used, and I agree it would be nice if search engine start supporting it (When is yahoo starting?), but it seems pretty obvious that the XML-Format that Google proposed does (a lot more) more, than what you can do with Pings. And I have already seen people using the ping-feature of their weblog-software to ping google when they updated their sitemap - so it's not "incompatible". What exactly is the issue here?

 [Blog.searchenginewatch.com] New "Google Sitemaps" Web Page Feed Program: Participation is free. Inclusion isn't guaranteed, but Google's hoping the new system will help it better gather pages than traditional crawling alone allows. Feeds also let site owners indicate how often pages change or should be revisited. Below, a Q&A on the new program with Shiva Shivakumar, engineering director and the technical lead for Google Sitemaps.

 [J-walkblog.com] The J-Walk Blog: Google Sitemaps: Google Sitemaps is an experiment in web crawling. Using Sitemaps to inform and direct our crawlers, we hope to expand our coverage of the web and improve the time to inclusion in our index. By placing a Sitemap-formatted file on your webserver, you enable our crawlers to find out what pages are present and which have recently changed, and to crawl your site accordingly.

 [Weblog.cemper.com] Google Sitemaps - Collaborative Crawling with the SiteMap XML: amazing feature... there is even a Google Sitemap Generator available .and you are allowed to update the Google Crawler once per hour.. the site map generator is a little pythin script to run actually, no heavy Windows application.

 [Psychcentral.com] World of Psychology » Blog Archive » Google Sitemaps Beta: Google Sitemaps is an experiment in web crawling. Using Sitemaps to inform and direct our crawlers, we hope to expand our coverage of the web and improve the time to inclusion in our index. By placing a Sitemap-formatted file on your webserver, you enable our crawlers to find out what pages are present and which have recently changed, and to crawl your site accordingly.

[Kevinleitch.co.uk] Autism Blog Web Design Blog: » Google Site Maps Submission: If you have a small site that changes infrequently, you may wish to create your sitemap by hand but if you have a large site you should find a way to let your site auto create your Sitemap – your sitemap file acts like a robots.txt file in that it is always monitored by Google so finding an automatic way to update it as your sites pages update is a must. Google have tried to help in that respect and have produced a Sitemap generator written in Python. Or, for those of us who use Wordpress, there is a dedicated plugin written by Arne Brachhold that does all the work for you. I’m also in the process of writing a fairly generic script to do this in

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