Google XML Sitemaps

The Google Sitemaps tool is part of Google's Webmaster Tools offering.

Although this tool doesn't guarantee any direct increase in search engine rankings, it can help Google's website crawler more accurately index your website.

Google's Sitemap Tool provides information such as:

• Crawl Information - Ensuring Google's crawler can access your site.
• Top Website Content - Information about popular content on your site and the keywords that other websites use to link to it.
• Popular Queries - Information about the queries that drive traffic to your website.
• Google Index Information - Details about what pages of your site are currently indexed.

This information can be helpful by allowing us to correct any issues that Google is encountering when crawling your website. Correcting these errors often leads to higher search engine rankings, and better traffic!

Yahoo Text Submission

Yahoo also provides a similar submission technique, but based on flat text files as opposed to XML files.

Yahoo's method performs the same underlying service: to help assist the crawler find all of the pages in your site.