Sitemaps part 2 - it worked, now what?

I have to say that installing the sitemap plugin and actually generating a sitemap using the plugin was surprisingly simple.  This particluar plugin offers many options which should be explored individually to make sure that the site is as fine tuned as possible, for now, the sitemap has been created (you can see it here: http://www.skeletoolcx.com/sitemap.xml).

Now what? The next step is to let Google know about the existence of the sitemap and its location.  In the Google webmaster tool section (after you’vie activated the free Google webmaster tool suite for your site), you can let Google know about the site’s sitemap.  Click on the “Sitemaps” tab, enter the URL of the sitemap and submit, that’s it.  Google says it will take several hours for their system to recognize the sitemap that has been submitted, that’s ok, there’s more to be done.

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