The power of Google Sitemaps

[Blue Cat Buxton]

I have been working on a site for a while - a domain that was acquired about 4 months ago that I later discovered was second hand and that had expired a few months before that.

Anyway the little Google spider would not visit, even though other domains with holding pages launched the same time (and after) were spidered within days.

I had feared that there was a ban in place because of the previous site content and was about to submit to Google to 'un ban' it.

Anyway, as a last resort, I added and submitted a google sitemap and within 24 hours, along comes Mr spider and the grey toolbar turns white.

Now all I need is a no 1 ranking :D

Anyway, it seems that the sitemap can help get a new site spidered

[moonshield]

Yep. Those sitemaps work well.

[etech-martin]

Google sitemaps are free and useful to spiders new site. It is an easy way to index all URL of the site. I think you should visit this link, it will help you a lot. ;)

https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/about.html
http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=745

[Emancipator]

Martin I think you missed the point of his thread. Blue Cat I just setup a sitemap for one of my sites as well and am tinkering with it.

[James]

You people (1929) planning on using analytics?

[moonshield]

I use analytics. It works a bit better than AwStats

[Emancipator]

i use analytics on some of my sites...

[etech-martin]

Martin I think you missed the point of his thread. Blue Cat I just setup a sitemap for one of my sites as well and am tinkering with it.
Oh, yes.. I think you are right. :p
I also agree analytics is better and nice tool. :)

[Emancipator]

:P I like being right... once in my life