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Does Your Website Have a Site Map? It Should! 
| Written by Tony Herman | |
| Thursday, 08 January 2009 | |
What is a site map anyway? There are two basic types of site maps.
Having an XML site map on your website can help speed up the amount of time that spiders spend on your site:
Why is this important? Well, as the second article states, it's just faster. You get into Google or Yahoo's database faster. That's good. Basically, it's to your advantage to be a good host for the search engines that visit your website. We are including an automatic XML site map generator with our websites. It runs either once a week or nightly and then automatically updates your site map and it also submits that sitemap to Google so that you're always up to date. We've been doing this a while and we're seeing great results. Some websites get indexed very quickly and we see new pages show up on Google the very next day. This is just another reason to blog on your website. You never know when a certain post will attract a lot of attention. If your website's set up to work well (site maps, a CMS, good SEO, etc.) you'll get a boost of traffic. We've seen that with a few of my blog posts already. It's pretty cool and fun when that happens - you just have get blogging. -Tony
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