MAS o Menos

After Carl convinced me that creating a search engine sitemap was a wise thing to do, I jumped headfirst into the project. Along the way I learned a lot. I even cranked out the ASP.NET Article of the Day on the topic.

Are the sitemaps working? Have they resulted in more web traffic from the major search engines? At this time Yahoo! is still asleep at the wheel. However, Google has taken notice with my web sites with sitemaps. The charts below use the last 3 Thursdays as a sample. They clearing show a huge upward trend in referrals.

Google referrals - DeepFitness
6/14/07: 71
6/21/07: 152
6/28/07: 755

Google referrals - INeedCoffee
6/14/07: 1,658
6/21/07: 1,509
6/28/07: 3,056

Google referrals - Digital Colony
6/14/07: 172
6/21/07: 168
6/28/07: 296

CriticalMAS doesn’t have a sitemap yet. I’m still restoring and moving old photo galleries over to SmugMug. Once that project is completed, I’ll add a sitemap here as well.

Even if your aren’t an ASP.NET coder, my article Build a Search Engine SiteMap in C# has some tips on the sitemap protocol that you might find helpful.

Tags: digitalcolony