So, one of the highlights I found this week, amongst many others, was the news that Google has sent us a bigger helping hand in the creation of XML sitemaps for our larger sites. I have since sent this helpful generator onto my dev team. I was in a tech meeting with my team this past week and they were asking if there was an easy application that could help with the creation of generating sitemaps for our 20+ international sites and I sent them this link.

One of the other cool things about this application is the fact that is a very smart application as well. Give it a try. I have so often encouraged my teams to create and upload an XML sitemap for the site. I have never experienced any negative indexing or any negative SEO whatsoever, in fact, what had happened was a huge increase in the number of pages indexed over a very short period of time.

So why are so many so reluctant?  Who knows, there are so many SEO heads out there who proclaim to say one thing and do another, or think that something as simple as this must not possibly work, but it does. Not sure if you have seen this recent survey from within Sphinn on whether sitemaps actually help get things indexed faster and without a doubt an overwhelming number of voters agreed that the sitemaps are aiding in pages indexed in Google. 

If you haven’t done this yet for your site, why not give it a shot? Run a baseline before you upload the sitemap and then within 30, 60 and 90 days following see what you find, my guess is you should see some very cool results!