Google Sitemaps service allows us to keep Google informed on more specific details of your website's updates or changes via an XML feed. It's like giving your website's blueprints to Google so they can index it better. Engineering Director Shiva Shivakumar explains on the Google Blog why they launched Sitemaps:

"Initially, we plan to use the URL information webmasters supply to further improve the coverage and freshness of our index. Over time that will lead to our doing an even better job of delivering more search results from more websites."

We are excited about the opportunity to have a collaborative effort with Google in supplying accurate and updated information for our client's websites. Google's current method for indexing sites via site to site crawling is effective, but lacks the aim Google Sitemaps service offers. Sitemaps opens the door for us to be more involved. Just another way Google aims to provide more relevant search results.

Have you submitted your sitemap to Google? If you haven't we can help. We have custom designed programs that will aid in generating the sitemap. Developing Google Sitemaps is a small component of our internet marketing service. Learn more about our internet marketing services.

Additional Information

SearchEngineWatch Blog - Danny Sullivan interviews Shiva Shivakumar