Google Sitemap Validator

Google Sitemaps are a useful addition to the Webmaster Tools available in Google. Your web designer should make it a matter of course to create a sitemap for you when your website is built. To aid Google's indexing it's useful to keep this sitemap up-to-date - that's why, if you've got a dynamic website like Andersons Real Estate, you should ask for an automated sitemap generator to be created. 

Don't rely on your sitemaps to be correct when they are released, check them with the Google Sitemap Validator.

Sitemaps

One often overlooked area of search engine optimisation is sitemaps.

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.

Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and learn about those URLs using the associated metadata. Using the Sitemap protocol does not guarantee that web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints for web crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site.

In Mission Beach web design work performed by Ion e-Business never forgoes the use of sitemaps.