Anyone got any experience of Google Sitemaps

[findtheneedle.co.uk]

Anyone found it to be any use?

 

[temi]

I find it useful as a directory to list my business

 

[findtheneedle.co.uk]

You have used Google Sitemaps for your sites then?

Google sitemaps page is here:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login?sourceid=gsm&subid=us-et-about2

 

[temi]

No,
I have not used google site map, I have hear horrible things about it besides I am more than happy about site engine coverate of my sites so I see no reason why I should use it

 

[findtheneedle.co.uk]

What horrible things?

 

[temi]

Maybe this problems have not been ironed out but when it was first launched I hear a few webmasters complain about it affecting their ranking or the number of indexed pages negatively, so that sort of discouraged me from using it. But If you do not have a huge site I don't think you really need it anyway.

 

[findtheneedle.co.uk]

My site has over 500,000 pages and not all of them are picked up by google, so thought it might be worth a go.

 

[temi]

Definitely for a large site like yours the site map tool will be useful, did you find that lots of your pages has not been indexed since using site map tool?

 

[temi]

My site has over 500,000 pages and not all of them are picked up by google, so thought it might be worth a go.

Impressed, I just checked how many pages from your site is indexed by google, its over 200,000 well done

 

[WhatiFind]

I'm using google sitemap for a new website, it's wordpress based. Used this plugin for the google sitemap. http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final

Google has indexed the website quickly.