Google Sitemap

Google's sitemap is a way to get your site fully scanned by Google. A relatively new phenomenon allows you to tell Google where your sitemap is and it will use the sitemap to scan the pages of your site.

It's interesting from another perspective. Several Internet marketers have come up with tools that they are selling for, I think, $97 with threats to increase the price at some point in the future to $197.  The interesting thing is that there are free tools available that do the same thing!

A couple of sites I've looked at are

http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp

and http://www.blocklayer.com/googlesitemap/Default.aspx

Google's sitemap generator, that looked a little confusing (maybe not confusing, but a lot of work compared to the other two which are pretty simple) to me is at

http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/sitemap-generator.html

When you've finished your sitemap and saved it to your site as an xml file you can submit it to Google at http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login.  You'll have to create an account, if you don't have one.

Do yourself a favor and spend the hour or so it takes to do this, much of it just wait time, and get your site set up for this.