I’ve Submitted My Sitemap, When Will My Site Appear In Google?
Posted by Richard Hearne on April 16th, 2007
Google and the other main Search Engines allow webmasters to create a Sitemap file that helps them to discover and crawl your site’s pages and content.
Many webmasters and site owners wonder how long it takes after creating their Sitemap for Google to index their sites? Well in my experience Google will not index a website unless they find at least one link to that website from another website.
This means that it is essential that your site has at least one in-bound link that Google can follow to your site.
So after you get your Sitemap up and running make sure that your site has some in-bound links from other websites - if you can get links from high-traffic, trusted websites I’m willing to bet that your site will be indexed in quick time.
May 5th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Just to add: I have found a program that will create a sitemap for you… Its really not a huge secret amongst bloggers, but just in case anyone needs it… Try GSiteCrawler. Its a fantastic tool when creating sitemaps.
-TheYoungGuy-
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May 6th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Hand written blog comment spam. That’s doing things the hard way, though of course I’ll also endorse GSiteCrawler.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Hello,
I read through the net about people complaining that after creating Google site maps, their traffic and PR went down.
After removing the site maps, their traffic and PR came back.
Is this a coincidence or there is some problem with the site maps indexing?
What is the philosophy behind indexing a site map by google? Is there any difference than a normal page?
regards