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Google Site Map Generator:

Announcing Google’s new Site Map Generator program.

Google recently released its new Google Site Maps generator service. Despite the name, Google Sitemaps is not a tool that creates sitemaps for your web site.

Google Sitemaps is another way to submit your web pages to Google.

Google’s Sitemap Generator can create sitemaps from URL lists, webserver directories, or from access logs.

What is Google Sitemaps?

Google calls it “a beta ‘ecosystem’ that may help webmasters with two current challenges:

• keeping Google informed about all of your new web pages or updates, and
• increasing the coverage of your web pages in the Google index”.

Google SiteMaps allows you to tell Google which web sites it should crawl, and it allows you to tell Google that the content on your site has changed.

How do you submit your sitemap to Google Sitemaps?

The easiest way to submit your web page URLs to Google Sitemaps is to create a list of URLs in plain text format:

• http://www.example.com/index.htm
• http://www.example.com/page1.htm
• http://www.example.com/page2.htm
• http://www.example.com/directory/whatever.htm

Enter one URL per line and save in the required .xml format simply by ending the file with .xml instead of .htm

Then log-in here to Google Sitemaps and upload the saved .xml file.

Here is a more comprehensive list of free Google Sitemap creation and submission Software, WP Plug-ins and Tools.

Do Google Sitemaps increase your Google rankings?

No, it doesn’t.  Using Google Sitemaps will not influence your rankings.

You just tell Google that your web pages exist.

Google still uses its normal ranking algorithms to determine the ranking of your web pages.

Google even makes no guarantees about when or if, your URLs will be crawled or added to the index if you use Google Sitemaps.

However feedback from the blogging community has indicated positive results after submission of a Site Map to Google .. often resulting in the immediate indexation of web pages which were previously ignored by Google.

What does submitting a Site Map to Google mean to your web site?

Google Sitemaps might be useful to you if your web pages aren’t crawled by Google’s spider.

If Google’s spider hasn’t crawled your web site yet, your web site probably doesn’t have enough good incoming links.  If your web site has many good incoming links, Google’s spider will find your web site anyway .. read this article for a headstart: Strategies for Inbound Links - High PR and SE Rankings

In addition, good incoming links tell Google that your web site is important and that it deserves high rankings.

Detailed information about Google Sitemaps can be found at Webmasters’ FAQs for Google SiteMaps.

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Here’s trusting the new Google SiteMap generator program, will help in your  blog’s optimization effort.