When it comes to search engines, there is no doubt that Google is the best. A good page ranking on Google is worth a lot more than a good ranking on a less popular search engine. The reason for this is that Google is so widely used. The vast majority of people who use the internet use Google to find good content on the web. Because so many people use it, a high page rank is a great way to get people to visit your website.
Google's think tanks came up with the idea for Google Sitemaps because there are so many websites that send their web pages to Google. This service, which began in June 2005, makes it much easier to send a web page to Google. It also gives you detailed reports about how visible the submitted page is in Google. With Google Sitemaps, webmasters can keep Google up-to-date on their web pages and any changes they make, which can help their Google rank. This programme works in addition to Google's regular crawl, but some people think that Google Sitemaps can do a better job than the regular crawl.
Google made the Google Sitemaps programme so that the search engine could give its users better search results. Due to the way web crawling works now, not all pages are usually found. It's also hard to tell if a page has been changed. Since there are so many things that crawlers can't control, they sometimes just guess. With Google Sitemaps, it's easier to see all of a website's URLs and how often it changes. When users know these variables, they can be sure that they are always getting a new index of web pages when they search in Google. This makes searching in Google more robust and useful.
Webmasters only need to download a free open-source tool called Sitemap Generator, which helps them make a Sitemap using the Sitemap protocol, in order to use the Google Sitemap programme. Google hopes that webservers will support the protocol in the future so that webmasters won't have to do anything else to join the programme.
Google Sitemaps also takes codes from or makes codes for third-party providers without any restrictions. It even lists all of the third-party software that is available on the Google Sitemap pages.
One of these sites is XML-Sitemaps.com, which gives webmasters a free Google sitemaps generator that also makes an HTML site map.
The people who make Google's software and services are always making changes and improvements to the Google Sitemap programme so that it can better meet the needs of webmasters. Because of this, the Sitemap programme is always getting new features.
Some of the new features that have been added now have to do with how Google Sitemap reports things.
When a site has been verified, Google can show webmasters statistics and errors about the site as well as the web pages. Among the information that would be included are:
- How PageRank is spread out on a website
- The common text in external anchors that other websites used to link to their sites.
- The URLs that were hard for Google to crawl, along with the reason why. Also included are the top searches that led people to their sites and the top searches that led people to their sites.
These new features, along with others that are still being made, are very helpful for webmasters because they make it easier to run a website. It also makes it easier for webmasters to do some things they need to do to better control their site's page ranking. In the end, it helps bring more people to their websites and puts more of their pages in Google's index.
