Creating Google Sitemaps? Save your money!
Have you heard about Google Sitemaps? If not, here's a quick link:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login
The theory behind them, and what Google promises, is that it will help their spider find your web site pages quicker and more efficiently.
That's great news if it works as advertised, gone will be the days when you put up a site and waited for the spiders to find all your pages, a few today, a few more next week, some not for many months.
The first day I found out about this new feature I became very excited. However when I found out the sitemap had to be created by their site map generator, which needed the Python language, which I knew nothing about or how to get on my server or PC, I was frustrated. I assumed that companies would come out with generators of their own, at a price, to make things easier for us non-techies.
I've been waiting, and actually, fortunately, yesterday I found a package that promises to easily create a site map XML file for you to upload to your server. I'm testing right now to see if it works as advertised, and will report back soon. But that's not why I'm writing today.
Today, I received multiple emails about a new product, which shall not be named here, which generates Google site maps for you. It sounded too good to be true (assuming I didn't find a different package yesterday), until I saw the price ($147.00). Although I'm sure that the developer paid a programmer to write the software package for him, I'm sure it does nothing more than what the one I found yesterday does. And that one was FREE.
For today, I'm not naming names, but as soon as I find out if my free solution works, and if it gets more of my pages indexed quickly (I'm testing it on a site that has 111 pages indexed today, out of 200+ that have been on my site for several months without the rest being found by the spider). If those missing 90+ pages show up in the next week or less, I'll be a raving lunatic with excitement, and I'll let you know how with a more indepth review of the process and the software package I'm using.
Until then, I suggest that you don't spend $147.00 on a package to create Google sitemaps.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login
The theory behind them, and what Google promises, is that it will help their spider find your web site pages quicker and more efficiently.
That's great news if it works as advertised, gone will be the days when you put up a site and waited for the spiders to find all your pages, a few today, a few more next week, some not for many months.
The first day I found out about this new feature I became very excited. However when I found out the sitemap had to be created by their site map generator, which needed the Python language, which I knew nothing about or how to get on my server or PC, I was frustrated. I assumed that companies would come out with generators of their own, at a price, to make things easier for us non-techies.
I've been waiting, and actually, fortunately, yesterday I found a package that promises to easily create a site map XML file for you to upload to your server. I'm testing right now to see if it works as advertised, and will report back soon. But that's not why I'm writing today.
Today, I received multiple emails about a new product, which shall not be named here, which generates Google site maps for you. It sounded too good to be true (assuming I didn't find a different package yesterday), until I saw the price ($147.00). Although I'm sure that the developer paid a programmer to write the software package for him, I'm sure it does nothing more than what the one I found yesterday does. And that one was FREE.
For today, I'm not naming names, but as soon as I find out if my free solution works, and if it gets more of my pages indexed quickly (I'm testing it on a site that has 111 pages indexed today, out of 200+ that have been on my site for several months without the rest being found by the spider). If those missing 90+ pages show up in the next week or less, I'll be a raving lunatic with excitement, and I'll let you know how with a more indepth review of the process and the software package I'm using.
Until then, I suggest that you don't spend $147.00 on a package to create Google sitemaps.
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