All too often, we see Google pictured as the “evil” company whos just out to get you, and to make your life miserable.
While at times it might seem that way, it’s just not true.
No Google is not going to come banging on your door to sit down next to you and help you design your website, but they do provide a wealth of traffic assistance for the webmaster whos willing to look for it.
Take the Google sitemaps program for example.
Google wants to know about ALL your pages. When you consider the billions of webpages that are on the Internet now, thats a daunting task. The way that they discover YOUR pages is by “spidering” your website. This is also called crawling. This is done through automated robots that will look through your website and follow the links to discover other pages. When it does, it puts those pages into a database, which they will use to ultimately decide which page will get listed and which one doesnt.
If you make this process easy for them, they can reward you with much faster spidering of your website. This is especially advantageous if you have a large website.
Google has a program...