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Re: Nice New Tool for New Sites Seeking 'Googlejuice'

Big Bill wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:04:20 +0200, Els <els.aNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
>>Els wrote:
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Remember common question such as, "i have new site, but don't show up in
>>>> google"? Well, there's a nice new tool that addresses such inquiries at:
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/sitestatus
>>>> 
>>>> It looks handy. *smile*
>>> 
>>> Perhaps for people who have sitemaps submitted, but for me (ordinary
>>> Google-sitemap-less person), it just tells me that "Pages from my site
>>> are included in Google's index" and that "Some of these pages are
>>> indexed without a title or description". It's not gonna tell me
>>> *which* pages, so I can't see its usefulness.
>>>  
>>> It does keep telling me I can submit a sitemap though, which to me
>>> means that that page is just another ad for Google sitemaps. 
>>> 
>>> YMMV of course.
>>
>>Update on my opinion:
>>I noticed that if I verify my sites, a whole lot more info becomes
>>visible. Might be useful after all :-)
> 
> Oh Else!

One 'e' too many there, Bill! It's not grammar, but still a mistake :P
 
>>(even if only to check that the Googlebot doesn't encounter problems
>>when crawling my site, or to confirm the robots.txt is set up
>>properly)
> 
> Thing is, even if they start out pretty crappy, they can grow. So the
> thing to do is to keep an eye on them, see how they develop.

'nother thing is, that you need to log in, then 'add your site', and
then verify it. Means that if you suffer from a little paranoia, you
may think that Google is gathering more information than you may want.
It will now also know who owns which site. Who knows it might ban all
sites instead of just the one that is doing something wrong.

Of course Google only wants to be helpful, and surely they're not
trying to control the entire Internet. And obviously they're only
giving us all these features so we will be happy, and not because they
are planning on making even more money from it somehow... ;-)

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