Google Sitemaps is working

As I’ve posted previously, I started ‘testing’ Google Sitemaps last week. So what have I done? I added my feeds first. They were there already so that didn’t take any effort. Next I added a plugin to my WordPress installation that would generate a sitemap automatically and added that one also.

Now the big question. Is it working? It seems so…
At the Google Sitemaps ‘Control Panel‘ I see that the feeds and sitemap are being fetched every 12 hours or so.
Looking at my serverlogs I see Google spidering like crazy in the past 24 hours or so. Their spider jumped from a third to the first place in the bot-list. So spidering is great. What about the indexing? Seeing a spider is one thing, being indexed another.
Well, great news on that front too. If I lookup my pages in Google I see that a lot of them are cached on june 12 and 13. (That’s like yesterday)

In conclusion: Google Sitemaps looks like the tool to keep your pages in Google fresh. Now if other searchengines would follow, that would be nice.

Some reservation: It could be that Google is doing an all out spider-run which may (or may not) indicate a Google Dance is underway and we’ll see some updated PageRanks. Time will tell.

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2 Responses to “Google Sitemaps is working”

1. Mouwer Says:
   November 24th, 2005 at 5:43 pm

   My website (18 pages) was completely indexed within two days by using Google Sitemaps.

2. Caspar Says:
   November 24th, 2005 at 6:56 pm

   The service has been updated a short while ago.
   Even if you don’t offer a Google Sitemap, the service can tell you several statistics they (Google) have about your site. Stats like top search queries, crawl (errors), pagerank status, content found, etc.
   Check it out.

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