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This is Sizzling Hot, Google Now Gives you feedback. By Creating a Google Sitemap and using some free online tools anyone can get Google to crawl their Website within 24 Hours. As an Added bonus after Google Crawls your site they give you feedback about any problems their Spiders encountered. You Need to take advantage of this amazing service from Google Today, just follow these 4 simple steps.

Step 1 Get a Google Site Map Account

Go to Google and Create a Site Map Account.

Step 2 Create Your Site map

You can create your Sitemap either as an XML file or a TXT file. Google Prefers You use XML since they receive More Information about your Web Site.

If You prefer to use a text file simply following the below direction taken directly from the Google Help File

Google accepts simple text files that list URLs. Since Text files contain only a List of URLs Google does prefer you use the Sitemap Method since google receives more inforamtion about each of your URLs. The text file must follow these guidelines:

# Only place 1 URL Per Line in the Text File. The URLs cannot contain embedded new lines.

# Be sure and Fully specify Each URL as Google will crawl them exactly as they are listed.

#Do not place more then 49,997 URLs in a Text File. If you site includes more than 50,000 URLs, you can separate the list into multiple text files and submit each one separately.

# Google only accepts Text Files that use UTF-8 encoding. It is easy to specify the Encoding method when you save the Text File. (As an example the encoding method is listed in the Save As Dialog Box in Microsoft Notepad).

# It is important that the Text File only contain fully qualified URLs and no other information.

# The text file should contain no header or footer information.

# You can name the text file anything you wish. Google recommends giving the file a .text extension to identify it as a text file (for instance, sitemap.txt).

# You should upload the text file to the highest-level directory you want search engines to crawl and make sure that you don't list URLs in the text file that are located in a higher-level directory.

Step 3 Upload your Site Map File To Your Web Page

Once you have created an XML or TXT Sitemap using the instructions in Step 2 you would just upload it to your web page either by FTP or by using the Cpanel from your Web Host.

Step 4 Tell Google

The last step in this process is to tell Google about your Sitemap. You simply Log In to your Google site map account and add the URL of you Site Map. Don't forget to check 3 or 4 Hours later to see that you uploaded the SiteMap Correctly.

Now be sure and repeat the above 4 Steps whenever you change your website

Bonus Step 5

After Google has read your Sitemap and crawled your site (usually 12-24 Hours) you will see a verify link next to your Sitemap name. Click the link and Google will instruct you to create a blank file and place it on your Web Page, Once you have done that Google will tell you any problems it encountered crawling your Page