Google sitemap
What is a Google site map?
A Google Sitemap is a very simple document that lists all the pages in your website, in one location. This makes it very easy for the spiders to crawl and list all the pages of your website, not just the home page
Until Google Sitemaps was released in the summer of 2005, optimising a site for Google was to some extent still hit and miss. A website's page might suddenly be deleted from the search engines index, and the Webmaster had no idea why. Alternatively, a website could be visited, but because of the peculiarities of Googles algorithm, the only pages that would rank well might be the "About Us" page, or the company's press releases.
Click the picture to see Website Analysts Google sitemap
There are now essentially two reasons to use Google Sitemaps:
1. Sitemaps provide you with a way to tell Google valuable information about your website.
2. You can use Sitemaps to learn what Google thinks about your website.
Although the Googlebot does a very good job of finding and cataloging website pages, it has very little ability to rate the relative importance of one page versus another. Therefore, Google Sitemaps give us the ability to tell them on a scale of 0.0 to 1.0 how important a given page is relative to all the others. Using this system, we might tell Google that your home page is a 1.0, each of your product sections is a 0.8, and each of your individual product pages is a 0.5. Pages like your company's address and contact information might only rate a 0.2.
You can also tell Google how often your pages are updated and the date that each page was last modified. For example your home page might be updated every day, while a particular product page might only be updated on an annual basis.
Using all the new information now available through Google Sitemaps, we can dramatically improve the position of your website and quickly clear up any issues Google finds.
For more details please contact one of our specialist team.
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