Google Sitemaps

Google has been providing quite a few interesting services besides their famous search engine. One service that could provide your website with value is Google Sitemaps.

Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to help improve your coverage in the Google index. It's a collaborative crawling system that enables us to communicate directly with Google to keep them informed of all your web pages, and when changes are made to these pages.

With Google Sitemaps you get:

Statistics about your site and information about URLs they had trouble crawling.
Better crawl coverage to help people find more of your web pages
Fresher search results
A smarter crawl because you can provide specific information about all your web pages, such as when a page was last modified or how frequently a page changes

Oxclove Workshops Google Sitemap Service

Oxclove Workshop can implement a Google sitemap for your. The process includes:

Creation of .XML file in the appropriate format
Creation of a Google Sitemap account for your website
Uploading and validation of XML file
Telephone walk-through of the Google Sitemap reporting feature

For most websites (under 500 documents), the cost for this service is $125.

While there is evidence that this will help with your Google indexing, there is no guarantee that implementing a Google Sitemap will help your rankings.