Sitemaps Rule!

November 16, 2006 | By Terry Stockdale | In Blogs, Internet Marketing, Monetizing Your Site, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Traffic & Linking 

I recently started using GSiteCrawler to create my sitemaps for Google. This program creates XML sitemaps in the open configuration used by Google (Google released this XML protocol under a Creative Commons license).

Now, I’m really glad that I did.

I’ve seen a significant increase in my search engine traffic.
Plus, yesterday, Google, LiveSearch (formerly called MSN) and Yahoo announced that MSN and Yahoo would support the same protocol — one sitemap for all three!

Of course, you still have to validate your sites and register the sitemaps for the individual search engine, but that’s not a bad effort.

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One Response to “Sitemaps Rule!”

  1. Easy SEO Tips for Web Site Owners at Drawing on the Web on December 10th, 2006 4:33 pm

    [...] Here’s an short blog entry of mine with pointers to Google’s and Yahoo’s sitemap.xml instructions [...]

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