According to Google the number of sites submitting their sitemaps has increased massively over the last 12 months. Although using sitemaps wont guarantee that every page of your website will be crawled and indexed it definitely helps the search engines to find and index updated content faster. Due to the increase in submissions we have already seen Google recently update its Webmaster tools and they have now too updated some of their sitemap features, seeing the following changes come into place:- Continue reading →