Google Sitemaps lets Webmasters tell Google about all the pages on their Web site, rather than leaving it to Web crawlers to find them

Google launched a free service on Friday that gives Webmasters more control over what Web pages are crawled by the search engine.

Until now, the most that Webmasters could do to encourage Google to index their site was to submit their home page to Google and hope the search engine found all pages linked from it. The new service, known as Google Sitemaps, lets Webmasters tell Google about all of their Web pages, how frequently they are likely to change and which ones they want crawled first.

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