testWhy Google Sitemaps is so great
I like to know who links to me and why, but in a lot of cases that is difficult to find out. Even when do a “link:http://www.digital39.com” in Google I get maybe 3 links, but in Google Sitemaps I have 98 links. I know that to a lot of people that isn’t a lot and for me it isn’t a lot, but I don’t try to push my content either. I am unsure why the “link:…” syntax in Google is so far off, but I don’t mind as long as I can see it in Sitemaps. When you go into the Links section of Google Sitemaps it lists all pages that have links pointing to them along with the number of links. You can then see what exact urls that are linking to that. In addition to that you can see your crawl statistics, how many pages it could not index, how many were blocked by robots.txt and so on. In my opinion Google is better than most know, some of the services they offer are just so superior and part of that is because of the simplistic display I am not bombarded with 50 color ads flashing all over my screen. I need to start showing some screen shots of this stuff, but that will have to wait until I redo the blog in Wordpress 2.1; I have a lot of plans.
