About
Google Sitemaps
Google Sitemaps is an experiment in web crawling. By using
Sitemaps to inform and direct Google's crawlers to specific
web pages in order to speed up the discovery and addition of
pages to the Google index.
If your site has dynamic content or pages that aren't easily
discovered by following links, you can use a Sitemap file to
provide information about the pages on your site. This helps
the spiders know what URLs are available on your site and
about how often they change.
This program does not replace our normal spidering methods of
crawling the web. Google still searches and indexes your sites
the same way it has done in the past whether or not you use
this program. A Sitemap simply gives Google additional
information that Google spiders may not otherwise discover.
Sites are never penalized for using this service. This is a
beta program, so we cannot make any predictions or guarantees
about when or if your URLs will be crawled or added to the
Google index. O
Also, you can submit updated Sitemaps as your URLs change, but
you don't have to, as the spiders will periodically revisit
your site (and will use the frequency information you provide
in your Sitemap as one of the factors in how often they
revisit) and look for new pages.
Use of the Google Sitemaps program is absolutely free.
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