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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.

There are many excellent ways to get Google to notice your site, in fact, in looking at my site stats 24 hours after I set up the doman, the Googlebot is already visiting me.  How did they find my site?  What does the Googlebot do?  I must answer these questions.  In the meantime, I took the first step and went to:

Google Add URL Page

Which allowed me to let Google know that my site is up and running.  I wonder how effective this particular Google page is.  The response Google gave me after I submitted this page is below, unfortunately not very encouraging, but hey, it’s a start.  Also, it tells you to check out the Google Webmaster tools, I’ll be doing that later on to see what they have to offer.

Please note that we do not add all submitted URLs to our index, and we cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if they will appear.

You may also be interested in Google webmaster tools, which shows you Google’s view of your site, helps you diagnose problems, and lets you share information with us to help improve your site’s visibility in our search results