New Features in Google Sitemaps >>QUESTIA
SIBU BABU
By SIBU BABU
The Google Sitemap program has brought a high level of assistance to
web developers, web designers and business owners who want to optimize
how their website's web pages are seen by the Google search engine.
We all know how important page ranking is for a web page. The higher
your page rank in Google, the more chances that it will be clicked and
visited by visitors. Increased internet traffic is what drives sales
and awareness for products and services.
The Google Sitemap program has become very popular because it made the
task of submitting web pages to Google so much easier. A web developer
or designer does not even have to worry about aking frequent changes to
the web pages because it is more easily known by Google. By presenting
a constantly fresh index of web pages for your web site you are assured
that what is presented in Google is the latest pages that you are
maintaining.
The very high popularity of Google Sitemap has encouraged Google's
team of engineers to develop and add more features to the program.
These additions seek to make Google Sitemaps more intuitive and
effective in its functions.
Google recently announced that it has again added a bevy of new
features for the Google Sitemap program that just made certain aspects
of the program so much easier to understand and maintain.
Here are the latest new features of the Google Sitemap program:
Query Stats. Knowing the top position of your website is important.
With Google's Query Stats, you will now know the top search queries
where the results included your website as well as those that Google
searchers actually clicked on. The position given is the average
statistic posted over the last three weeks.
Top mobile search queries. Google acknowledges that there is a growing
number of people who use mobile devices for browsing the internet and
also consider it as a separate "demographic". For this reason, the
top mobile search queries feature shows web designers and developers
the top search queries made from mobile devices in which the results
showed their website. Web designers and web developers will see both
the mobile searches of all web sites as well as the mobile searches of
mobile-specific web sites. The results given by this feature will only
appear if it is available in your web site. At this point of the
development of this feature, Google only shows the top search queries
and not the clicks made for those queries.
Downloading Sitemap details, statistics, and errors. Your Sitemap
account now also contain additional information. You can now download
information in the form of a comma separated value file. This type of
file can be opened by using any text editor or spreadsheet program. You
can decide to download the information on a per table basis, or you can
opt to download Sitemap details, errors or statistics for all of the
web sites in your Google Sitemaps account in one convenient file.