Google sitemaps

Is this replacing traditional submission/indexing.

[bid4abook]

Whilst reviewing my adsense program I read over the newish (to me anyway) Google sitemap submission text. Is it the way ahead for indexing?

[mack]

I think it may be, it sure beats adding a whole lot of pages manualy. It may be good for getting your deep pages listed that little bit quicker, but you still need to cover the basics by getting inbound links.

Mack.

[bid4abook]

Any advice or articles in respect of inbound links?

[greatclare]

The sitemap thing is great. Google alerted me to broken links that I otherwise would not have found.

[Tony_WPAO]

Hi,

I have been using a Google Sitemap for a few months now but find that Google are very slow at downloading the new xml files that you are supposed to post into the Google Admin account for Sitemaps.

When the service first started Google would download the new XML site map file in a matter of hours a few days at most, now I have seen it take 6 weeks.

It's a BETA service so perhaps one shouldn't expect much as demand has grown it's got much slower.

I only tried it as an experiment to see if new pages would get found faster. I'm not convinced particularly as Google comes most days to my site anyway without being asked to through Google Sitemaps.

[edited by: engine at 3:34 pm (utc) on Nov. 30, 2005]
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