The search engine giant Google (www.google.com) announced on June 3 that it has launched a new webmaster-focused free service called Google Sitemaps (www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps). The service allows webmasters to automatically submit their Web pages to Google. To use Google Sitemaps, a webmaster needs to sign up for the scheme online. After this step, they generate and submit an XML-formatted site list using Google's own free open source Sitemap Generator. Webmasters don't require a Google account to generate and submit sitemaps. If they do create a Google account they then check the status of their maps and view diagnostic information for their submissions.
Google said that now webmasters can inform Google about all their existing Web pages, prioritize the pages they want crawled first, and tell Google when pages are updated so that Google can index new content faster, and that Google’s intention with the new service aims to furnish the search engine with more information about what is online in order to improve search results for users worldwide.
