Tag: sitemaps

June 22, 2010

Is Your Google Sites Sitemap Empty?

If you’ve followed the directions that we posted in our previous posting on Sitemaps for Google Sites and you find that the sitemap is empty (not missing but actually empty) then you’ll need to follow these steps to get your sitemap completed:

Go to Google Webmaster Tools (http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/) and create an account if you don’t already have one.
“Add a Site” using the information from your current website
Choose to verify your site using the Meta tag
Copy the provided Meta Tag information into the “Google Webmaster Tools verification” field in the General Site Settings portion of the “Manage Site” admin page.
Go back to Google Webmaster Tools and verify the site

June 2, 2010

Creating Sitemap for Google Sites

So you’ve got a Google Sites website and you want to submit a sitemap to your Google (and other site engines) but how do you do it? Sure, with static sites you can go ahead and use a 3rd party system that will crawl the site and create an xml file for you but if you do that, how do place that file into your Google Sites site?

Well, you could upload it to a file cabinet page but Google comes to the rescue, as you can imagine, in that there is an automated sitemap that stays sync’ed with your website that you can submit to tools but it can kind of confusing to find it.