Comments on: Google Sitemaps Thoughts http://www.theoneandtheonly.com/2005/06/04/google-sitemaps-thoughts/ from the mind of Andrew Buckman Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:02:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: hink http://www.theoneandtheonly.com/2005/06/04/google-sitemaps-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-1001 hink Sat, 04 Jun 2005 19:42:48 +0000 http://www.theoneandtheonly.com/2005/06/04/google-sitemaps-thoughts/#comment-1001 Come On now, GoogleSearch Is our doubleplus good friend. :) Come On now, GoogleSearch Is our doubleplus good friend. :)

]]> By: Andrew http://www.theoneandtheonly.com/2005/06/04/google-sitemaps-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-1000 Andrew Sat, 04 Jun 2005 10:51:37 +0000 http://www.theoneandtheonly.com/2005/06/04/google-sitemaps-thoughts/#comment-1000 Oh yeah, they own Urchin (web stats) now too. :-\ Oh yeah, they own Urchin (web stats) now too. :-\

]]> By: Andrew http://www.theoneandtheonly.com/2005/06/04/google-sitemaps-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-999 Andrew Sat, 04 Jun 2005 10:34:35 +0000 http://www.theoneandtheonly.com/2005/06/04/google-sitemaps-thoughts/#comment-999 Ah but look again and we see that 50k is only the tip of the iceberg. Setup your site for multiple sitemaps and google will process up to 1,000 sitemaps with 50k urls each. I'd certainly expect Google has done their best to counter anything someone might do to abuse the new system. If that fails I'm sure they'll have no qualms about banning you from AdSense. As for the Google account, oh boy I won't even get started on that other than to say it's a bit scary to think just how much information Google has on us from storing search queries, scanning gmail, Froogle queries / shopping lists, driving directions, and of course both adsense and sitemaps allowing them to tie you to the content on sites you own/manage. Perhaps we all should be a little more paranoid? Ah but look again and we see that 50k is only the tip of the iceberg. Setup your site for multiple sitemaps and google will process up to 1,000 sitemaps with 50k urls each. I’d certainly expect Google has done their best to counter anything someone might do to abuse the new system. If that fails I’m sure they’ll have no qualms about banning you from AdSense.

As for the Google account, oh boy I won’t even get started on that other than to say it’s a bit scary to think just how much information Google has on us from storing search queries, scanning gmail, Froogle queries / shopping lists, driving directions, and of course both adsense and sitemaps allowing them to tie you to the content on sites you own/manage. Perhaps we all should be a little more paranoid?

]]> By: hink http://www.theoneandtheonly.com/2005/06/04/google-sitemaps-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-998 hink Sat, 04 Jun 2005 10:18:56 +0000 http://www.theoneandtheonly.com/2005/06/04/google-sitemaps-thoughts/#comment-998 Oh yes, the sweaty populus. I'd like to think that, for awhile at least, this will coast under most people's radar. For a little while, at least. The <a href="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84/sitemap.xsd" rel="nofollow">spec</a> has a stated upper limit of 50K urls (or 10MB, apparently) and a string length limit of 2048 characters. Perhaps the sly dogs over at Google thought about the SEO miscreants ahead of time -- being the target of the most pernicious of these abuses, maybe they built in some other tripwires? I dunno. I suppose I need to think about it longer, perhaps some glaring hole in the theory will turn up -- but for right now, the idea that I can do something to legitimately influence which documents I want indexed is very appealing. I also wonder about this new(to me) concept of having a "Google" account. Not that I am a paranoiac; I am just curious how that plays into limiting abuse, etc. Oh yes, the sweaty populus. I’d like to think that, for awhile at least, this will coast under most people’s radar. For a little while, at least.
The spec has a stated upper limit of 50K urls (or 10MB, apparently) and a string length limit of 2048 characters. Perhaps the sly dogs over at Google thought about the SEO miscreants ahead of time — being the target of the most pernicious of these abuses, maybe they built in some other tripwires?

I dunno. I suppose I need to think about it longer, perhaps some glaring hole in the theory will turn up — but for right now, the idea that I can do something to legitimately influence which documents I want indexed is very appealing.

I also wonder about this new(to me) concept of having a “Google” account. Not that I am a paranoiac; I am just curious how that plays into limiting abuse, etc.

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