Catching Up with Google Sitemaps
Ok, so I am getting back into the swing of things this week. Been studying to re-establish my California real estate license for the past couple of weeks…more on that later. I was just poking around Google Sitemaps a bit (hey Google, how about an easier URL for the damn thing…maybe sitemaps.google.com?) and noticed that Google now shows you the page with the highest PageRank (yeah, yeah, I know. But, you know you still care too) on your site. BTW, this is found on the Crawl Stats page. For golod.com that happens to be the home page. But, if you look at the toolbar, one will notice that the page that currently displays the highest PR, and has for as long as I can remember, is for one of my WordPress Themes. If you look in the Google Directory, which appears to have updated in the past few months, my blog is clearly in the PR6 range now. I used to be between a blog that was PR5 and one that was PR6, so I was kinda bummed. Anyway, it would be really nice to see the top 5 or 10 pages on your site, with regards to PageRank. Might help to show us webmasters what people are actually linking to. But, it is definitely cool to see that Google is working on this tool as I think it is the best thing they offer to webmasters at this point…since we don’t get toolbar PR updates, real link: counts, allinanchor: data, etc. anymore.

July 12th, 2006 at 11:12 pm
Has sitemaps made a lot of difference to your traffic?
July 13th, 2006 at 8:31 am
I doubt it…really no way to tell though. There are too many variables involved to draw any kind of conclusion. It is too easy to integrate, especially with WordPress, and there is not really any reason not to.