Welcome to this factual article about Google sitemaps, I’m going to explain to you exactly what Google sitemaps are, how they can be used and why your site should never be without one.

So, what are Google Sitemaps?

A Google sitemap is pretty much what it says on the tin, a map of your website that the Google bots can follow to help them index your website more effectively. 

Why should i have a Google sitemap?

As I’m sure you already know, today the Internet is flooded with billions of web sites. Due to this fact, Google no longer has the processing power to simply find every single website on the net and index it. The solution they came up with was to launch the well known Google sitemaps system where webmasters can index there own websites. If you don’t submit a sitemap to Google, don’t be surprised if your web site takes an age to index or update in Googles cache, Google will obviously go for the sites that are trying to help them first!

Right, ok so i need a map, how do i get one?

Setting up a Google sitemap can mean a call to the web developer who will whip one up for you within 30  minutes. If your hosting with hosted web however we have it covered! Simply log into your hosting control panel and click on the Google sitemaps option, within seconds your sitemap is ready and it will even upload it to Google for you if you wish!

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That’s it for this article, i hope you enjoyed reading it and found it informative.

We have added more free software to our downloads section. This time its the GSiteCrawler software which creates a Google sitemap for your website so that Google can crawl your site properly. Theres also an online sitemap generator within your hosting control panel which will scan your hosting account and produce a map.