Google has a sitemap tool that is supposed to be used for indexing websites (faster?) as opposed to having just a 'sitemap.html' in the main folder of say, a redneck fun website.
I created a christmas site using that utility a few months ago.
Since then, I have been watching like an alien the search engine results on google, yahoo, and msn and find that yahoo and msn would find pages on my sites much faster than google did while using this so-called tool. My Halloween site was posted on the google-sitemap-utility-site, since it was new, in the hopes that it would get indexed quickly. The only thing that seemed be found quickly by google was the main page, which was just a few days. It took a good 2&1/2 months for any other pages to show up while yahoo and msn had already found those pages in about 3&1/2 weeks.
All the while, I see where google spiders from several different regions have been viewing the sites on a daily basis; sometimes viewing a single page and other times viewing several pages.
It seems to me that this sitemap tool by google is nothing more than an excuse for their spiders to do less work. In any case, I and a others have found that the tool ( google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login ) is not very efficient.
I have resumed using "sitemap.html" files for getting my sites indexed by Google.
To be continued...
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Hi. I too think I have a problem of making a lot of changes and republishing and then hanging around checking in and out with my dash board. You would think I would be over the kill thrill of watching all of my combined efforts on AdSense and 7 sites totaling about $0.01
oops . . But my main comment was a question. How did you do that? Did you need apache? I just downloaded it yesterday and I haven't configured it yet. I tried everything I could think of in an attempt to follow something that said almost the same thing. I think I was told the sitemap.xml file. If you have any light to shed on this I might be able to get it. My basic understanding of how this is may nnot be right - but I picture the sitemap.xml existing somewhere like the root and at the same time as the initial parameters are being defined, they are also being restated in a cleaner way - yours - the .html is on one side of that translatio and mine .xml is on the other. My problem was somewhere here thought - I didnt attach it in exactly the right place, and I couldn't get it attached in the right format. I spent hours and hours trying though. Please reveal what I missed? It has really been disapointing how tricky. . .
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