Today it was announced that there was a new study on Sitemaps at the WWW’09 conference in Madrid. Some of you may be interested in reading the full report or viewing the power point.  The one part that I found to be very interesting was that 78% of URLs were seen by Sitemaps first, compared to 22% that were seen through discovery first (aka craled by a search engine spider through links). This really inforces the importants of creating an XML sitemap and making sure it’s up-to-date. The more ways a search engine can reach your content the more likely it will be indexed and at a faster pace.

Ways to get your content indexed…

• Create an XML sitemap.
• Create an HTML sitemap.
• Internal linking; link from your other pages.
• External linking; links from other websites to your content.

Learn more about xml sitemaps at sitemaps.org.

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