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mariaminm · Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 11

What is the purpose of sitemaps. In the Google site it mentions that adding sitemaps in your website will help in the webcrawl.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35181&hl=en

however I receive an error when I Click the verify button
Verification status: NOT VERIFIED
We've detected that your 404 (file not found) error page returns a status of 200 in the header.

Please help

Corey Bryant · Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 2:44 pm Re: Sitemaps

mariaminm wrote: What is the purpose of sitemaps. Basically it helps Google to find all the pages quickly. It does not have to spider your website, but just look for that file.

mariaminm wrote:
Verification status: NOT VERIFIED
We've detected that your 404 (file not found) error page returns a status of 200 in the header. Do you use a custom 404 error page? Can you use ASP? If you can use ASP, put this before the <head> Code: <%
Response.Status = 404
%> otherwise, contact your hosting company to see what is the problem. They might have to change a configuration.

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mariaminm · Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 11

thanks Corey

fairdoes · Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posts: 39 Location: u.k.

You can notify google immediately of updated pages. If the page is deep in your site they sometimes take ages to re-index it.

jackdomain · Joined: 21 Oct 2007 Posts: 7

for a news sites is a nice way to get indexed in a few time

sirronstuff · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 2 Location: Fort Worth, TX

Here is a nice free tool to make your sitemap. Be sure to look at everything it generates, as there are some pages you may not want indexed.

My site went from about 7 indexed pages to 24 overnight. If content is in fact king, this is a really big deal.

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

And if you want help making a robots.txt file, this might help

http://tool.motoricerca.info/robots-checker.phtml