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Recent Q&A from Google on Google Sitemaps

Posted: 15 Jan 2008 03:51 PM CST

Google Webmaster Central Blog logoSusan Moskwa and Trever Voucher from Google's Webmaster Tools Team published a synopsis of the questions they received at Chicago's recent Search Engine Strategies Conference. If you have ever had a question about Google Sitemaps and the effect they may or may not have on your site, this is a helpful read.

Get the answers to the following questions:

  • I submitted a Sitemap, but my URLs haven't been [crawled/indexed] yet. Isn't that what a Sitemap is for?

  • If it doesn't get me automatically crawled and indexed, what does a Sitemap do?

  • Will a Sitemap help me rank better?

  • If I set all of my pages to have priority 1.0, will that make them rank higher (or get crawled faster) than someone else's pages that have priority 0.8?

  • Is there any point in submitting a Sitemap if all the metadata (, , etc.) is the same for each URL, or if I'm not sure it's accurate?

  • I've heard about people who submitted a Sitemap and got penalized shortly afterward. Can a Sitemap hurt you?

  • Where can I put my Sitemap? Does it have to be at the root of my site?

  • Can I just submit the site map that my webmaster made of my site? I don't get this whole XML thing.

  • Which Sitemap format is the best?

  • If I have multiple URLs that point to the same content, can I use my Sitemap to indicate my preferred URL for that content?

  • Does the placement of a URL within a Sitemap file matter? Will the URLs at the beginning of the file get better treatment than the URLs near the end?

  • If my site has multiple sections (e.g. a blog, a forum, and a photo gallery), should I submit one Sitemap for the site, or multiple Sitemaps (one for each section)?
Again here is the link to the Google sitemaps Q&A.

comScore Announces Top50 Properties for December

Posted: 15 Jan 2008 03:51 PM CST

chart of the top 50 web properties of December 2007 according to comScore MetrixcomScore released statistics of U.S. consumer activity for the December '07 holiday season. Included was the always interesting list of the Top 50 web properties:

"Yahoo! Sites continued its reign as the top U.S. Web property in December with nearly 137 million visitors, followed by Google Sites (133 million visitors) and Microsoft Sites (120 million visitors). Apple Inc., which benefited from interest in popular holiday gifts like the iPod and iPhone, moved up one spot to capture position 10 with 47.7 million visitors. Holiday shopping also lifted Sears Sites, which jumped 10 spots to number 21, Best Buy Sites, which rose 5 spots to 22, and JCPenney Sites, gaining 5 spots to position 40. NBC Universal, iVillage.com: The Womens Network, and Weatherbug Property all entered the rankings this month capturing positions 48, 49, and 50, respectively."

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