Sunday, July 03, 2005
Testing Google Sitemap tool for getting indexed in Google
Since then, I had also created the following new links
- Directory Exchange for automatically managing my links exchange with partners (this is to increase my site popularity links). If your website is similar to the theme of my website, you can also exchange site link with me. Just click on the "Add Your Site" link at the relevant sections.
- Personal Finance section for my compilation of articles, tips and guides for managing your personal finance.
The above site was not getting indexed too. :(
After reading around and getting updates from Mark Hendricks and the other gurus like Paul Short, I started experimenting with Google Sitemap (beta) tool. Within 48 hours of submitting my sitemap, Google started indexing those other sections of my site (this was not during the usual round of visit by Google as what I see from my logs). Within days, the number of pages indexed grew steadily. It nows starts at 266 (a big jump from 150 previously). I will be monitoring this more closely over the next few days.
Just in case you are interested to try out Google Sitemap (beta) tool, you need to do the following:
- Create a sitemap for your whole website. It took me 30 mins to create mine on a broadband connections. I highly recommend this free tool from SoftPlus GSiteCrawler by Johannes Mueller. You can download this 20MB file from http://johannesmueller.com/gs/. This only works on Windows 2000 or XP.
- Upload your new sitemap (in XML) format to the root of your website. This means that to the search engine, your sitemap will be at http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml.
- Go on over to Google Sitemap (beta) at https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login and login. You would need a Google (free) account. which you can apply at that same page. After you log in, just submit your sitemap details.
- After the above actions, have patience and wait for a few days. Monitor your logs more closely and go over to Google and type in "site:www.yourdomain.com" to see if the number of pages for your website has increased. (replace www.yourdomain.com with your own website URL). Some of my other partners has also reported that it took them 72 hours before their site got indexed in Google. Hence, the results might be different for you.
You can check my status anytime by going to Google and type in "site:www.wealthmountains.com". Most probably, I will report back again in another few days to see how it goes.
Once more of myStore get indexed, I will do a review on the effectiveness for my testing on the Secret Money Generator product. Do stay tuned.