SiteMap - How important it is?

We all know that Google is today's best search engine. It produces the greatest part of the overall traffic on the Web. Webmasters value good PageRank in Google much more than showing in other less distinguished search engines. Google is constantly gaining more and more popularity. Almost all people use Google to search for quality content on the internet. Because of its popularity a high Google PageRank plays an important advertising role for your website.

Each day a great number of web pages are submitted to Google. Because of this Google decided to come out with Google Sitemaps to facilitate searching. The Google Sitemap service first started in June 2005 and since then submissions to Google are much easier. Today webmasters can easily communicate with Google and inform them about the release of their pages and changes and updates of pages. Moreover, web owners receive detailed reports regarding the submitted page?s visibility in Google. The Google Sitemap service is an additional feature that Google offers except for the Google?s regular crawl. However, some people claim that Google Sitemaps can do a better job than the regular crawl. This is just an assumption yet.

The Google sitemap program is a result of Google?s constant efforts as a powerful search engine to provide users with better search results. It is believed that Google?s regular crawl does not manage to discover all the pages available on the Web. Moreover, the Google Sitemap service helps Google to find out whether there are added, changed or updated pages. Now it is much easier to get a better picture of all the possible URLs in a website as well as the changes that are made using the Google Sitemap. As well, users are satisfied with the results that they get because they always know that they are offered a fresh index of web pages.

In order to use the Google Sitemap Service the web owner only needs to download free software called Sitemap Generator. This tool automatically creates a Sitemap using the Sitemap protocol. Web owners are not required to take any other extra steps because Google guarantees that will eventually support the protocol.

New and improved features are regularly added to the Sitemap software in order to provide webmasters with better services. The newest features added to the Google sitemap software provide users with better reports. Google can show webmasters the statistics and errors about the website as well as the web pages.


The good thing about the Google Sitemap software is that it easily accepts codes generated by third party providers. In addition, within the Google Sitemap pages you can find a list of all available third party software. It provides the user with information about:

• Troubles with URLs ? while the spider is crawling, it may come across problem websites. The software gives possible reasons for these troubles. ;
• The web page's PageRank;
• The most common words or phrases used by other websites to link to them.

These features are becoming more popular because using them makes running a website so much easier. That is why it is easy for webmasters to run a website and to improve their website?s page ranking.