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Here's 4 Quick and EASY Steps To Getting Your Website IN Through Googles 'Back Door'

Google... one of the Internets MOST powerful search
engines recently announced a new FREE service that
makes it easier for you to improve your websites
coverage within Googles index through its NEW
collaborative crawling system.

On the down side though, Google does not
'Guarantee' immediate inclusion, But, is still good news
for those of you who have just finished building a
website and are ready to submit to the top search
engines.

So, what's this NEW service called that Google just
released?

It's called "Google Sitemaps".

The real cool thing about "Google Sitemaps" IS it
accepts RSS(Real Simple Syndication) and Atom feeds
with the .XML extension as one of the accepted
formats for submitting your websites Sitemap for
inclusion in Googles index.

This is just one of the four formats Google accepts and
is the one that I'm going to use for the rest of this
article to show you how to generate your own .XML
sitemap of your website for inclusion in Google.

It's real easy to do so don't worry about it being to
complicated.

So, with that said, lets go to Step #1.

Step #1. Sign up for "Google Sitemaps".

This step is easy, simply follow the link provide below
and sign up for a Free account. It should only take you
a few minutes to do, then once your done, come back
here and go to Step #2.

Go to:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login

Step #2. Generate your .XML sitemap.

In this step your going to generate a .XML sitemap for
your website using a Free online sitemap generator.

This Free online generator will build you a sitemap up
to 500 pages. If you have a larger website with
thousands of webpages you'll have to use a paid
service and/or software to generate yours.

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

Enter your required information on the form provided.

Step #3. Upload your generated .XML sitemap to your
server.

Once your generated sitemap is finished(your
generated .XML file should be called site.xml.gz) it's
now time to upload it to your server using your FTP(File
Transfer Protocol) program.

This is very important that you do this before
submitting it to Google Sitemaps for inclusion.

Step #4. Submit your NEW .XML sitemap to "Google
Sitemaps".

Now that you have generated your "Sitemap" for your
website and uploaded it to your server all you have to
do now is to go to "Google Sitemaps" and submit your
sitemap URL.

(ex. http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml.gz)

That's it.

Now, depending on Google, your sitemap should get
downloaded within the next 24 hours, so be sure to
check and see that it did and that there wasn't any
problems or errors.

Also, your going to want to be able to track your
indexed webpages within the search engines,
especially Google, so you can see how things are
going, so I'll leave you with one last resource that will
do this for you.

Go to: http://www.uptimebot.com

All you have to do is enter your URL and click "GO".

The results page will list the results from Google and 9
other popular search engines.

Well, there you have it... "4 Quick and EASY Steps To
Getting Your Website IN Through Googles 'Back Door'".

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