{"id":97,"date":"2009-06-15T09:29:57","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T14:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2018-04-10T02:52:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T07:52:30","slug":"xml-sitemaps-finds-newcontent-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/15\/xml-sitemaps-finds-newcontent-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Confirms XML Sitemaps Helps Find New &amp; Changed Content Faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has confirmed that a study using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/products\/googlesitemap.html\">XML Sitemaps<\/a> will;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>help search engines find new and changed content faster.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to their <a href=\"http:\/\/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/update-on-sitemaps-at-google.html\">Webmaster Tools Blog<\/a> and a study conducted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2009.eprints.org\/100\/\">effectiveness of XML Sitemaps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two important points can be taken directly from this study;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWe conduct this test over a dataset consisting of over five billion URLs that were seen by both systems. According to the most recent statistics at the time of the writing, 78% of these URLs were seen by Sitemaps first, compared to 22% that were seen through Discovery first.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And more importantly;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe main observation from this study is that for an archival domain, Discovery is 63% \u201cefficient\u201d and Sitemaps is 99% efficient in crawling the domain.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since creating an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/products\/googlesitemap.html\">XML Sitemap<\/a> is so easy and effortless, there is no reason not to have one.<br \/>\n <!--codes_iframe--><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has confirmed that a study using XML Sitemaps will; help search engines find new and changed content faster. According to their Webmaster Tools Blog and a study conducted on the effectiveness of XML Sitemaps. Two important points can be taken directly from this study; We conduct this test over a dataset consisting of over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rage-google-sitemap-automator","category-web-site-optimization"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3898,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/3898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}