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SEO Files > October 23, 2006

Improvements To Google sitemaps

[ Haunting Thunder] Just before leaving work on friday I noticed the changes that google have made to their sitemaps tool you can now get the number of pages Googlebot’s crawled from your site per day, the number of kilobytes of data Googlebot’s downloaded per day, and the average time it took Googlebot to download pages. (data is for the last 90 days)

June 03, 2006

SEO With Google Sitemaps

[ eTalkMoney - eTalkMoney ways to Earn Money over the net] Although Googlebot does a pretty decent job of finding and cataloging web pages, it has very little ability to rate the relative importance of one page versus another. After all, many important pages on the Internet are not properly “optimized”, and many of the people who couldn’t care less about spending their time on linking campaigns create some of the best content.

Posted at 01:08 AM

April 17, 2006

Do Not Trust Google Sitemaps

[John Scott’s Internet Marketing Blog. www.internet-marketing-blog.com] I agree that Google’s Sitemaps search terms info is frequently not too incredibly accurate - but I feel the need to point out that they _do_ actually point out the search terms where you didn’t get click-throughs - although they don’t separate out explicitly the terms where you did. The left column of search terms under the ’stats’

Posted at 01:09 AM

November 19, 2005

Google Sitemaps For SEO

[SEO Diary - Search Engine Optimization - SEO Tips] Sitemaps is a tool established by Google to make indexing a website in its entirety, and keeping up to date with any changes on a website, easier on the search engine. By placing a list of all the pages on your website, along with when those pages were last updated and the importance of each page, in an XML file, Google is able to easily update its index.

Posted at 08:33 AM

September 04, 2005

Google Sitemaps Beta Adds Functionality

[Somewhat Frank ~ Blog] Google has recently enhanced the Sitemaps beta program. They now are allowing some feedback in for form of statistics in the...

Posted at 11:53 PM

August 01, 2005

Dangers of RSS Sitemaps

[schestowitz.com] The bottom line, from my point-of-view, is that for news-delivering sites, RSS sitemaps provide a good opportunity to conquer valuable SERP’s very quickly. For most standard sites with a decent amount of bandwidth to spare, RSS sitemaps appear like an overkill, even when HTML to XML implementation are virtually available ‘off-the-shelf’.

Posted at 09:07 AM

June 09, 2005

Google Sitemaps Protocol

[Pete Freitag's Homepage] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84"> <url> <loc>http://www.petefreitag.com/</loc> <lastmod>2005-06-06</lastmod> <changefreq>daily</changefreq> <priority>0.7</priority> </url> <url> <loc>http://www.petefreitag.com/tags/</loc> <priority>0.2</priority> </url> </urlset>

Posted at 12:16 PM

June 08, 2005

Google Sitemaps Beta Create Your Sitemap

[Daily SEO » SEO Blog Search Engine Optimization] Google Sitemaps 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 these pages.

Posted at 09:23 AM