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title: Google Sitemaps
date: "2005-06-08T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 643
description: Google Sitemaps is an experimental tool to help crawlers index sites faster. I've highlighted Google’s official documentation alongside community discussions on alternate proposals and specific implementations for platforms like Movable Type.
keywords: [google sitemaps, seo, web crawling, search engines, indexing, movable type]
---

[Google Sitemaps](https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/).

> ...is an experiment in web crawling. Using Sitemaps to inform and direct our crawlers, we hope to expand our coverage of the web and improve the time to inclusion in our index. By placing a Sitemap-formatted file on your webserver, you enable our crawlers to find out what pages are present and which have recently changed, and to crawl your site accordingly.

Anil Dash links to [alternate proposals](http://www.dashes.com/anil/2005/06/07/so_youd_like_). [via Anders Jacobs](http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2005/06/06/google_sitemaps_for_movable_type_now_with_correct_last_modified_dates.html)