Comments on: Blog SEO Tips: XML Sitemaps and the Google Webmaster Tools

By: Troy

Troy — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:46:58 +0000

Good basic articls. Any more detailed best practices to help optimize some of the parameters?

By: Chris Peterson

Chris Peterson — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:29:48 +0000

Sitemaps are a way to tell Google about pages on your site we might not otherwise discover. In its simplest terms, a XML Sitemap—usually called Sitemap. I submit my XML sitemap, however how do I know that it is successfully being indexed? In Google’s webmaster tools I’m able to see the indexing status of my XML sitemap index and sitemaps within (i.e. if there are errors and number of pages indexed in each file)… how can find similar diagnostic info within MSN webmaster tools to ensure my sitemap is successfully being indexed w/out errors

By: Altax

Altax — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:32:05 +0000

This is a well explained awesome post on Xml sitemaps. Saw this blog while searching for sitemap details. Cant go without commenting on your blog. Really an useful piece of information and a helpful post. Thanks.

By: ravi

ravi — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:33:38 +0000

i didnt realise sitemaps were that important, looks like i will have to get one.

By: ravi

ravi — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:47:31 +0000

Sitemaps are always good and useful for seo sometimes for navigation. I remember that old sites had a “sitemap” link. I was so frusturated when i’ve put a sitemap on my blog, but afterwords i discovered a really neet plugin

By: cheemzy

cheemzy — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:12:39 +0000

thak a lot.. very usefull article for newbie like me

By: luvvips

luvvips — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:58:26 +0000

Thanks alex for useful information about sitemap, I am very new in blogs and just created lots of blogs but wondering to create the sitemaps for each bolg as sitemap matters a lot. Now I have got the plugins for it. Thanks so much once again.

By: Asif

Asif — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:32:57 +0000

Thanks for providing such a rich information about Google webmaster tool. I HAVE ALREDY SUBMITTED MY SITE.

By: Paul - Leeds photo daily

Paul - Leeds photo daily — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:26:14 +0000

Great info for a newbie like me. I have just signed up to Google webmaster tools and submitted the sitemap for my blog Leeds Photo Daily. So thanks for this.

By: sandy

sandy — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:02:47 +0000

nice article, i never thought that site map was so important for any blog.
Now i am going to use this feature in my blog

By: Ableblogger

Ableblogger — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:49:27 +0000

Sitemap is a very important thing for any site.. and if its a blog then why not go for the wordpress plugin? hey thanks for explaining everything in detail. Never knew so much about sitemaps

By: Seth

Seth — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:18:35 +0000

The wordpress plug-in works best for me. Thanks for the post about a much needed topic! Sitemaps are something most new bloggers know nothing about!

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:50:43 +0000

yes, i am agree with this article but when we created the xml sitemap then we have some problem regarding the sitemap pages beacuse tools is not free so can you provide the free tool for site map.

By: Donace

Donace — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:39:36 +0000

I actually recently created a sitemap and submitted and saw a positive impact in a very short span of time.

By: Ken Acton

Ken Acton — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:55:54 +0000

Good post. For me, the big advantage of submitting your site-map to Google is being able to check your crawling stats etc. This gives the reassurance that everything is working as it should be or flags up issues where they occur.

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By: James

James — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:01:59 +0000

Nice article, I’ll turn-on sitemaps in my blogs.

By: Shirley

Shirley — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:36:52 +0000

Great tutorial. I feel that many blog owners neglect to create sitemaps because they think that their feeds are sufficient. And while feeds are great, they typically don’t contain links to all content, but just the newest content. Nor do they tell Google if you’ve update content…

By: TJ @ Smartblogtips

TJ @ Smartblogtips — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:05:15 +0000

Sitemaps coupled with robots.txt and google webmaster tools make a great way to identify your site for 404 errors and making your site more search engine friendly.

Regards
Thinkjayant

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:32:13 +0000

Great plugin that I just downloaded! My favorite feature is being able to add multiple headers and metadata right from the admin panel when posting.

Another tip that few overlook, is that when posting on a blog, rather than just leaving a link to your front page, add a link to your sitemap! I see this as being great for when other sites are spidered and really helps to get a new site noticed.

Thanks for the outstanding plugin and very well description!

Cheers,

Karl