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A real easy 4 step method to get spidered by google in less then a day
Extra, Extra Google Now Gives you feedback. By Creating a Google Sitemap using free online tools you can get Google to crawl your site inside 24 Hours. As an Added bonus after Google Crawls your site they give you feedback about any job they encountered. To take vantage of this amazing service from yahoo just follow these 4 simple steps.
Step 1 Get a Google Site Map business relationship
Go to Google and Create a Site Map business relationship.
Step 2 Create Your Site map
You can create your Sitemap either as an XML file or a TXT file. XML is the PPreferred method since you can give Google more info about your Web Site.
If You prefer to use a text file merely following the below way taken straight from the Google Help File
Google accepts simple text files that list URLs. As the text files contain only a list of URLs, Google prefers that you use the Sitemap protocol so you can provide additional info about your URLs. The text file must follow these guidelines:
# The text file must have one URL per line. The URLs cannot contain embedded new lines.
# Be sure and Fully specify Each URL as Google will crawl them precisely as they are listed.
# Each text file can contain a upper limit of 50,000 URLs. If you site includes more than 50,000 URLs, you can offprint the list into multiple text files and submit each one individually.
# Google only accepts Text Files that use UTF-8 encryption. It is easy to specify the encryption method when you save the Text File. (As an illustration the encryption method is listed in the Save As dialogue Box in Microsoft Notepad).
# It is important that the Text File only contain fully qualified URLs and no other info.
# The text file should contain no heading or footer information.
# You can name the text file anything you wish. Google recommends giving the file a .text extension to identify it as a text file (for instance, sitemap.txt).
# You should always upload the Text file to the Top Level Directory you want the Search Engines to crawl, also be sure that you don't list URLS in the text file that are located in Directories above where your sitemap is placed.
Step 3 Upload your Site Map File To Your Web Page
Once you have created an XML or TXT Sitemap using the instructions in Step 2 you would just upload it to your web page either by FTP or by using the Cpanel from your Web Host.
Step 4 Tell Google
The last step in this process is to tell Google about your Sitemap. You simply Log In to your Google site map account and add the URL of you Site Map. Don't forget to check 3 or 4 Hours later to see that you uploaded the SiteMap Correctly.
Now be sure and repeat the above 4 Steps whenever you change your website
Bonus Step 5
After Google has read your Sitemap and crawled your site (usually 12-24 Hours) you will see a verify link next to your Sitemap name. Click the link and Google will instruct you to create a blank file and place it on your Web Page, Once you have done that Google will tell you any problems it encountered crawling your Page |
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