06-13-2008, 10:04 AM
Quote:So, what exactly is the Google Sitemaps program, and how can you use it to improve the position of your Web site? Well, there are essentially two reasons to use Google Sitemaps. First, Sitemaps provide you with a way to tell Google valuable information about your Web site. Second, you can use Sitemaps to learn what Google thinks about your Web site...
Google gives you the ability to tell them on a scale of 0.0 to 1.0 how important a given page is relative to all the others. Using this system, you might tell Google that your home page is a 1.0, each of your product sections is a 0.8, and each of your individual product pages is a 0.5. Pages like your companys address and contact information might only rate a 0.2.
You can also tell Google how often your pages are updated and the date that each page was last modified. For example, your home page might be updated every day, while a particular product page might only be updated on an annual basis...
full article: http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/solutions...hp/3752581