Google Sitemaps :: Are They Or Aren’t They Lucrative SEO Tools?
Google has had a feature out for some time which allows webmasters to create a sitemap file to help Google’s crawlers find and index content.
It sounds like a great idea. After all, it’s much easier to feed the crawler the content then hope it finds it on it’s own.
But is a Google sitemap worthwhile? Is it even necessary?
When the Google Sitemap program first started my thought was That’s kinda cool but what’s the real benefit?
So, I thought I’d try it out and submit sitemaps for a few sites that I own.
When Google Sitemaps first came out it was very difficult to figure out what all the entries meant as well as how to actually create the sitemap.
Sure, it was XML based, and I could plainly see what they expected but when you have a large site, how do you go about creating this?
Then Google came out with http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/sitemap-generator.html, a sitemap generator which is a program intended to help you create a sitemap for your site. This does help speed up the process but unless you...