Giving in to Google Sitemaps
Well I’ve delayed about this for a while, since Acne Vitamins already has a site map html page and it seems unnecessary to create another site map just for Google, but well, here I am giving in and making one. You would think Acne-Vitamins.com would rank rather well for a search term such as “acne vitamins”, but in fact the page just keeps jumping all over the place in the Google rankings, even with no changes whatsoever on my part.
While submitting a site map to Google should have no impact on rankings, it will at least keep your pages crawled and let you know if you have any indexing errors. These things help, but what really spurred me on to get started with this was a recent post by Matt Cutts concerning the possibility that Google might actually start letting webmasters know why their pages are not showing up. It’s hard to make positive changes to your site when Google doesn’t even let you know what is holding you down, not to mention while sites that are obviously abusing G’s guidelines outrank sites that try to keep things honest.
