Click to see the Screen-shot of Google sitemap
Can you see an issue with the stats shown in the screen-shot?These sitemaps are submitted just now but ‘last download’ Date is in the past.Just to let you know, these sitemaps were deleted 6 months back and re-added today.
Whether Google Sitemap benefits your site or not, has been a topic of debate for quite some time now. And there were suggestions from the SEOs that vary from ‘use’ , ‘Don’t use’ & at times ‘Not sure’.
Almost 6 months back, I deleted sitemaps ( or I thought so ) of my site from Google Sitemap ( Webmaster tools ) after having a few issues with the indexing of my website. After that I never tried to add a sitemap till today.
However, when I added those same old sitemaps, the stats shown by the Google tool was a bit surprising.
Why should we think that Google will delete the Sitemap, if we ask it to do so? I think it does not make sense for Google to delete the sitemap from its database it would probably just mark it, so that it appears to be deleted. And Google will keep an eye on those sitemaps as well.
What do you think?Digg It !!
Ram Manohar Tiwari
Nonadsense
Passionate about SAP
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I started using the web back in 1989. Man Iâm getting old. The first website I owned was freestuff.com (wonder what that worth now?) when the 2 yahoos 
listed me I was at the top of about 1000 hits. Wow has this puppy changed and Bill Gates said it wouldn’t amount to much. After all this time spent on the internet all I get is a no paying job called “Whereâs Waldo” or SEO as its so affectionately known as. Now we have a 9 million pound gorilla called Google. Google says if you want to get listed have only the best ranked websites link to you and donât link to anyone who is ranked low. What? And don’t try any tricks. But after that what’s left but tricks. It doesn’t do any good to complain because they’re just a bigger collection of smucks like us, just trying to deal with the sheer volume of information.
So what are we to do? Ignore them. Thatâs right, ignore them. You can always tell when Google says don’t do something or it will penalize you, that their lying. When they contradict themselves and give no possible way to achieve your goal of increasing your ranking. Go ahead get a link partner how is are you going to get linked to? Do they think some large corporation is just going to link to you out of the kindness of their hearts? Well enough of my belly acing, you get my meaning , letâs list the things we can do.
1.      Get Google to add your website. They say it could take several weeks. Laugh! I added Adsense, a sitemap and a robots.txt and they added my website 4 hours later. Googleâs Webmasterâs Tools has the robots.txt . I get my sitemaps from http://www.xml-sitemaps.com for free and I update them often.
2.      Steal, steal, steal. They say that imitation is the greatest form of flattery. Well when it comes to keywords, flatter your competition. But donât grab from some website that paid enough for adwords to get to the top. Go to about number 7+ in your search he didnât pay squat and still got there.
3.      Trade those links. Google says âDonât blah blah blahâ you have to start somewhere. So get started. You have to do a lot of dumpster diving before you can get to enjoy a fine meal.
4.      The best way to get linked is by submitting qualities articles. Whatâs a âqualityâ articles? Articles that tell you something different in a way that leads you to a website without trying to sell you before you get there. Google and webmasters are looking for quality not quantity.
5.      Content, content, content. Itâs simple, everyone wants to know, are you going to help me or are you just trying to sell me something. If youâre helpful I might buy something from you. Havenât you had those same thoughts? Go out and grab some quality content for your own site. And donât forget to let the authors know you are publishing them and ask them to publish your articles.
6.      Finally remember itâs about Google, itâs about visitors. If Google wonât help you, help yourself. There are a million websites willing to send you visitors, use them.
7.      Be an expert. Every wants to here from an expert. Get yourself published by article directories. But remember be an expert not a pitch man. I can send your articles to webmasters but I canât make them publish them.
These are just a few of the ways to get traffic, there are many great articles out there take a little time to read them
Gary is the webmaster TheGoFor an arrticle submission directory. TheGoFor
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Google currently indexes over 8 billion web pages. However, before these pages were placed in the index, they were each crawled by a special spider known as the GoogleBot. Unfortunately, many web masters do not know about the internal workings of this virtual robot.In fact, Google actually uses a number of spiders to crawl the Web. You can catch these spiders by examining your log files.This article will attempt to reveal some of the most important Google spiders, their function, and how they affect you as a web master. We’ll start with the well-known GoogleBot.GoogleBotGooglebot, as you probably know, is the search bot used by Google to scour the web for new pages. Googlebot has two versions, deepbot and freshbot. Deepbot is a deep crawler that tries to folow every link on the web and download as many pages as it can for the Google index. It also examines the internal structure of a site, giving a complete picture for the index.Freshbot, on the other hand, is a newer bot that crawls the web looking for fresh content. The Google freshbot was implemented to take some of the pressure off of the GoogleBot. The freshbot recalls pages already in the index and then crawls them for new, modified, or updated pages. In this way, Google is better equipped to keep up with the ever-changing Web.This means that the more you update your web site with new, quality content, the more the Googlebot will come by to chëck you out.If you’d like to see the Googlebot crawling around your web property more often, you need to obtain quality inbound links. However, there is also one more step that you should take. If you haven’t already done so, you should create a Google Sitemap for your site.Creating a Google sitemap allows you to communicate with Google, telling them about your most important pages, new pages, and updated pages. In return, Google will provide you with some valuable information as well. Google Sitemaps will tell you about pages it was unable to crawl and links it was unable to follow. This allows you to pinpoint problems and fix them so that you can gain increased exposure in the search results.The next Google bot in our lineup is known as the MediaBot.MediaBot – used to analyze Adsense pagesuseragent: Mediapartners-Google MediaBot is the Google crawler for Adsense Publishers. Mediabot is used to determine wich ads Google should display on Adsense pages.Google recommends that webmasters specifically add a command in their robots.txt file that grants Mediabot access to their entire site. To do this, simply enter the following code into your robots.txt file:User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*Disallow:This will ensure that the MediaBot is able to place relevant Adsense ads on your site.Keep in mind that ads can still be shown on a page if the MediaBot has not yet visited. If that is the case, the ads chosen will be based on the overall theme of the other pages on the site. If no ads can be chosen, the dreaded public service announcements are displayed instead.There is a strong debate over whether or not the MediaBot is giving websites with Adsense an advantage in the search engines.Even Matt Cutts has confirmed that the Adsense Mediabot has indexed webpages for Google’s main index.He states, “Pages with AdSense will not be indexed more frequently. It’s literally just a crawl cache, so if e.g. our news crawl fetched a page and then Googlebot wanted the same page, we’d retrieve the page from the crawl cache. But there’s no boost at all in rankings if you’re in AdSense or Google News. You don’t get any more pages crawled either.”This is very similar to Google Analytics, which also promotes a slightly higher degree of spider activity.Those who run Google Analytics on their site can expect additional spider activity.However, you certainly shouldn’t depend on any of these tools for getting your site indexed. The key to frequent spidering is having quality inbound links, quality content, and frequent updates. Have images on your site? If so, you have likely been visited by our next Google spider, the ImageBot.ImageBot – used to crawl for the Image Searchuseragent: GoogleBot-ImageThe Imagebot prowls the Web for images to place in Google’s image search. Images are ranked based upon their filename, surrounding text, alt text, and page title.If you have a website that is primarily image based, then you would definitely want to optimize your images to receive some extra Google traffïc.On the other hand, some web sites may not benefit from Google image search. In most cases, the traffïc from the Image search engine is very low quality and rarely converts into buyers. Many people are often just looking for images that they can swipe. So, if you want to save some bandwidth, use your robots.txt file to block ImageBot from accessing your image directory.One of the few exceptions I would make is if you have a site dedicated to downloadable images.Our final bot is completely dedicated to the Google Adwords program.AdsBot – Checks Adwords landing pages for qualityuseragent: AdsBot-GoogleAdsBot is one of Google’s newest spiders. This new crawler is being used to analyze the content of advertising landing pages, which helps determine the Quality score that Google assigns to your ads.Google uses this Quality score in combination with the amount you are willing to bid to determine the position of your ads. Therefore, ads with a high quality score can rank higher even if other advertisers are paying more than you.This is one of Google’s many efforts to ensure that they are delivering the best results to their users.Can you still block being spidered? Of course, but it will lower your overall Adwords quality score, which could end up lowering the positioning of your ads. If possible, it is best to give AdsBot complete access to your site.Today’s Google bots are becoming more advanced all the time. However, nothing beats relevant, quality, updated content. Deliver that and the search engines will eat it up.
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Google currently indexes over 8 billion web pages. However, before these pages were placed in the index, they were each crawled by a special spider known as the GoogleBot. Unfortunately, many web masters do not know about the internal workings of this virtual robot.In fact, Google actually uses a number of spiders to crawl the Web. You can catch these spiders by examining your log files.This article will attempt to reveal some of the most important Google spiders, their function, and how they affect you as a web master. We’ll start with the well-known GoogleBot.GoogleBotGooglebot, as you probably know, is the search bot used by Google to scour the web for new pages. Googlebot has two versions, deepbot and freshbot. Deepbot is a deep crawler that tries to folow every link on the web and download as many pages as it can for the Google index. It also examines the internal structure of a site, giving a complete picture for the index.Freshbot, on the other hand, is a newer bot that crawls the web looking for fresh content. The Google freshbot was implemented to take some of the pressure off of the GoogleBot. The freshbot recalls pages already in the index and then crawls them for new, modified, or updated pages. In this way, Google is better equipped to keep up with the ever-changing Web.This means that the more you update your web site with new, quality content, the more the Googlebot will come by to chëck you out.If you’d like to see the Googlebot crawling around your web property more often, you need to obtain quality inbound links. However, there is also one more step that you should take. If you haven’t already done so, you should create a Google Sitemap for your site.Creating a Google sitemap allows you to communicate with Google, telling them about your most important pages, new pages, and updated pages. In return, Google will provide you with some valuable information as well. Google Sitemaps will tell you about pages it was unable to crawl and links it was unable to follow. This allows you to pinpoint problems and fix them so that you can gain increased exposure in the search results.The next Google bot in our lineup is known as the MediaBot.MediaBot – used to analyze Adsense pagesuseragent: Mediapartners-Google MediaBot is the Google crawler for Adsense Publishers. Mediabot is used to determine wich ads Google should display on Adsense pages.Google recommends that webmasters specifically add a command in their robots.txt file that grants Mediabot access to their entire site. To do this, simply enter the following code into your robots.txt file:User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*Disallow:This will ensure that the MediaBot is able to place relevant Adsense ads on your site.Keep in mind that ads can still be shown on a page if the MediaBot has not yet visited. If that is the case, the ads chosen will be based on the overall theme of the other pages on the site. If no ads can be chosen, the dreaded public service announcements are displayed instead.There is a strong debate over whether or not the MediaBot is giving websites with Adsense an advantage in the search engines.Even Matt Cutts has confirmed that the Adsense Mediabot has indexed webpages for Google’s main index.He states, “Pages with AdSense will not be indexed more frequently. It’s literally just a crawl cache, so if e.g. our news crawl fetched a page and then Googlebot wanted the same page, we’d retrieve the page from the crawl cache. But there’s no boost at all in rankings if you’re in AdSense or Google News. You don’t get any more pages crawled either.”This is very similar to Google Analytics, which also promotes a slightly higher degree of spider activity.Those who run Google Analytics on their site can expect additional spider activity.However, you certainly shouldn’t depend on any of these tools for getting your site indexed. The key to frequent spidering is having quality inbound links, quality content, and frequent updates. Have images on your site? If so, you have likely been visited by our next Google spider, the ImageBot.ImageBot – used to crawl for the Image Searchuseragent: GoogleBot-ImageThe Imagebot prowls the Web for images to place in Google’s image search. Images are ranked based upon their filename, surrounding text, alt text, and page title.If you have a website that is primarily image based, then you would definitely want to optimize your images to receive some extra Google traffïc.On the other hand, some web sites may not benefit from Google image search. In most cases, the traffïc from the Image search engine is very low quality and rarely converts into buyers. Many people are often just looking for images that they can swipe. So, if you want to save some bandwidth, use your robots.txt file to block ImageBot from accessing your image directory.One of the few exceptions I would make is if you have a site dedicated to downloadable images.Our final bot is completely dedicated to the Google Adwords program.AdsBot – Checks Adwords landing pages for qualityuseragent: AdsBot-GoogleAdsBot is one of Google’s newest spiders. This new crawler is being used to analyze the content of advertising landing pages, which helps determine the Quality score that Google assigns to your ads.Google uses this Quality score in combination with the amount you are willing to bid to determine the position of your ads. Therefore, ads with a high quality score can rank higher even if other advertisers are paying more than you.This is one of Google’s many efforts to ensure that they are delivering the best results to their users.Can you still block being spidered? Of course, but it will lower your overall Adwords quality score, which could end up lowering the positioning of your ads. If possible, it is best to give AdsBot complete access to your site.Today’s Google bots are becoming more advanced all the time. However, nothing beats relevant, quality, updated content. Deliver that and the search engines will eat it up.
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An Internet business has many tools to help it stay competitive in its field. One of the best tools that you have is the massively popular search engine – Google. This article will give you a couple of great tips about how to profit more from Google.
Google has 90 million visitors to their website. That is unbelievable. Wouldn’t it be sweet to have that kind of traffic to your website. If you design your site right, you can have some of that Google traffic. What is great about Google is they provide you the tools that you can use to ensure that you will gain some of that traffic.
This is how Google works. They take the first few lines of text on your site and then incorporate that into your search listing. When someone types in your keyword and clicks on your site, you will develop greater page rank and popularity. When you use Google’s traffic monitors, you will know when you need to adjust your words to find more traffic.
Make sure that your first paragraph in your page contains the biggest impact statement. This is what your potential customer is going to see when they are searching for your site. The more views that you have to your website, the higher your traffic volume, the more clicks, and the higher your page ranking and popularity will be. This will help you rank high in the Google search engine.
A general guide to creating page content is that at least 8% of the words that you use are key words and about 300 words are your impact paragraph. Make sure that the words that you use in this first paragraph of your are powerful and compel someone to click through to your site.
Search Engine spiders are constantly looking at sites. It is important that you take the time to optimize your site. They always go from the top of your site to the bottom. That is why it is really important to spend special attention on the top of the page.
It is also extremely important to use Google Sitemaps on your site. Instant updating on the site indexing is one of the great perks that comes with the Google Sitemaps. The files are saved as XML files. This is basically a direct link to Google. If you want your site to rank in Google, use the Google Sitemaps.
Take the time to learn about all the tools that Google provides for their customers. They are the biggest players on the net. They can make you more money on your business.
Stay tight with Google. Play by their rules and use their tools. This will help you to rank high in the Google search engine.
Jeff Flow is a prolific Internet marketing writer. He recommends SEO Elite – The Grand Daddy of all Seo Software! Get A Top 5 Google Ranking In Under 30 Days!
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One of the uncommon search engine optimization (SEO) tactics is the maintenance of a Google sitemap for a particular website. A Google sitemap is an XML file that outlines the pages and subpages of your website so that Googleâs own search engine spiders will have an easier time in indexing your pages and tracking changes and updates implemented therein. Many SEO veterans claim that the inclusion of a Google sitemap has spelled the difference in their websitesâ positions in relevant search engine queries.
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In the highly competitive world of search engine marketing (SEM), every action â no matter how seemingly small â counts a lot, after all.
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This is true for blogs, as well.
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Wordpress blog owners have to contend with the fact, however, that such blogging platform does not generate a Google-compliant sitemap.Â
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Thankfully, the Google Sitemap Wordpress plugin has been released to, well, âplugâ such a deficiency.
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By installing the Google Sitemap plugin, you will be able to make your blog more competitive in fighting for a top slot in relevant search engine results. 80% of the traffic you will be able to generate for your pages will come from the search engines, after all. Every move youâll make for your blog matters.
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The Google Sitemap Wordpress plugin will automatically generate Google-compliant sitemaps for your blog. Additionally, the Google Sitemap Wordpress plugin also generates sitemaps that Yahoo, Ask and MSN can read.
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The plugin also automatically calculates the priority of each blog entry, based on the number of comments posted therein. This prioritization system can be overridden, however, via a menu where the user can input the parameters he wants the sitemap to follow.
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The Google Sitemap Wordpress plugin generates XML files in many languages, which is perfect for the regional indexing that Google has introduced in recent years.
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Also of notable importance is the fact that the Google Sitemap Wordpress plugin pings search engines that can read the sitemap it generates every time a change therein is made. No need to manually resort to an external pinging tool. This plugin takes care of such a task.
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Installing the Google Sitemap plugin is as easy as installing other plugins. Simply unzip the components of the file to your wp-content/plugins directory. Thereafter, go to your Wordpress administration page and install the plugin via your plugin menu. Access the plugin and click on ârebuild sitemapâ to generate your sitemap for the very first time. Make manual changes if necessary.
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One of the main reasons why blogs have quickly become the main marketing weapons of many online businessmen is the fact that they can easily win the favor of search engines. Blogs fare better than ordinary websites when it comes to placing in top results of search engine queries.
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By using the Google Sitemap Wordpress plugin, you will be able to make blogs even more powerful tools in your quest for the number one position for the keyword/s youâre targeting.
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Search engine optimization is not an unfamiliar term for online entrepreneurs. You cannot do without search engine optimization, which is a very essential website promotional tool. Without the use of SEO your online business would be a sheer failure. Search engine optimization refers to updating or optimizing your website so as to improve the search engine ranking of your website so as to drive targeted traffic to your site. Though search engine optimization is an essential aspect of online business, it could turn out to be a time consuming as well as cost inefficient way of website optimization until certain plan of action are not resorted to. Certain SEO tips if resorted to could make the search engine optimization process a success.
SEO Tips:
1. A thorough research of targeted keyword by the use of keyword analyzer tool so that targeted traffic is generated to your site.
2. Unique Meta tags & Title tags should be used. This is very important from SEO point of view.
3. HTML sitemaps should be included in your site as they take into account links to the main pages of your website. They are important from search engine optimization point of view as they provide a focal point for search engines where spiders could locate them easily.
4. Proper Keyword density should be maintained & at the same time there should be strategic placement of keywords in your content so that the article should appear interesting & the readability is maintained.
5. Writing articles, which are not just unique & informative but at the same time should connect with the theme & be conversational in nature. Search engines like unique & good content for website optimization.
6. A good navigation channel should be planned for a site so that it could be reachable by the search engine spiders.
7. To lay emphasis on keywords, they should be underlined or written in italics.
8. Make use of the primary & secondary keywords in the header tags. Search engine pays a lot of relevance to the words in these tags.
9. The ALT tag must be used in all the images of the website, also keep in mind that the keywords must be used in the ALT tags.
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Today there are several SEO techniques that help you to optimize your site, but one trick whose importance is undervalued at times is a Sitemap. A Sitemap is a page on your website that indicates the entire structure of your site including different sections, links between them, and so on. In short it gives a detailed listing of your website layout. Sitemaps are very helpful as they make site navigation easy for the visitors and also help search engines index the site.
Sitemaps generally fall into two categories. One is a HTML version which is for human visitors and helps them navigate through the entire site and find the information they are looking for. The other Sitemap is an XML version which is meant for the search engine to know about all the pages on the website including all the URLs that may go unnoticed by the search engine spidering the site.
Sitemap Benefits
There are many advantages of using sitemaps which are listed below:
Easy Navigation
A sitemap helps a visitor know where to find particular information he is looking for on the site. It acts as a guide to enable easy navigation through the site without wasting time to find information.
Search Engine Indexing
Sitemaps help search engines know about any updates that you make on your site. It is not guaranteed that the search engine bot will immediately index the updated pages, but, the changes will surely be indexed much faster compared to when there isn’t any sitemap.
New Site
If you have a new site with very few links in it, sitemaps can be very helpful. This is because the search engine spider crawls through documents by following links from one page to another and if your site does not contain proper links, it would be difficult for the bots to index them.
Broken Links
If you have a site that contains a lot of content pages which are not properly linked to each other or have broken links then using sitemaps will help search engine bots to index your pages better.
Dynamic Content on Site
Sitemaps are also very helpful if you have a site where your content is updated or changed frequently. The search engines can be immediately informed of this change through your sitemap. However, this will not assure you that your changed pages will be indexed right away.
Sitemap Process
To create a Sitemap for your website there are a few simple steps that you need to follow. First, a Sitemap has to be generated after which it needs to be uploaded to the site and then finally Google needs to be notified about it.
Sitemap Generation
A sitemap can be generated in two ways. One is by using an online tool that can help you generate the sitemap and the other is by downloading and installing a sitemap generator.
The first option is much easier compared to the second one as there are several online sitemap generation tools available free of cost that make your work simpler. The second option of downloading and installing a sitemap generator is a little difficult but enables you to gain a better control of the output.
Uploading and Submitting Your Sitemap
Once your sitemap is created, it has to be uploaded to your website and Google needs to be notified about it. In order to notify Google you have to add your site to your Google Sitemap account. However, if you don’t already have a Google Sitemap account, this is the time for you to create one. Also, it is important to know that adding a sitemap to your account requires a verification indicating you are the legal owner of the website.
It is also important to know that Google does not guarantee that all the URLs in your sitemap will be spidered and indexed. For instance, if there are any image URLs in your sitemap, these will not be crawled and indexed. However, your sitemap can help the search engine to know more about your site layout which will help it to crawl your site better and faster when compared to not having a sitemap. Webmasters usually benefit from submitting sitemaps and will not be penalized for it.
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