{"id":23732,"date":"2005-08-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/just-getting-started\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T02:04:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T23:04:33","slug":"just-getting-started","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/just-getting-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Just getting started&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"key-point\">It&#8217;s been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some images may be missing, and some links may not work anymore).<\/aside>\n<p class=\"gargardate\">August 08, 2005<\/p>\n<p>\n  We are stoked that so many of you are trying out Sitemaps while it&#8217;s in beta. When we read on the<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/groups-beta.google.com\/group\/google-sitemaps\" class=\"external-link\">Sitemaps Google Group<\/a><br \/>\n  that you&#8217;d like an easy way to find out about new features and where we&#8217;re headed with this thing,<br \/>\n  we realized we could put our very own Blogger to good use.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  And since the Sitemaps team is far-flung in<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?oi=map&#038;q=1600+Amphitheatre+Parkway,+Mountain+View,+CA+94043\" class=\"external-link\">Mountain View<\/a>,<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=720+4th+ave+kirkland,+wa&#038;spn=0.018995,0.045417&#038;hl=en\" class=\"external-link\">Kirkland<\/a>,<br \/>\n  and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ch\/jobs\/\" class=\"external-link\">Zurich<\/a>, this will be a good<br \/>\n  way to keep everyone posted about new features and developments. Subscribe to our feed to keep up<br \/>\n  with the latest. We&#8217;ll also e-mail each blog post to the Sitemaps Google Group, so if you get your<br \/>\n  news from there, you won&#8217;t miss out on a thing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In addition to telling you about new features here, we&#8217;ll also do our best to address some of the<br \/>\n  frequently asked questions from the Google Group.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Lately, some of you have wondered if submitting a Sitemap could actually reduce the number of your<br \/>\n  site pages we have indexed.\n<\/p>\n<p>No, submitting a Sitemap will not reduce the number of indexed pages for your site.<\/p>\n<p>\n  As we note in our<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/7474347\" class=\"external-link\">information for Webmasters<\/a>,<br \/>\n  each time we update our database of webpages, our index shifts: we find new sites, we lose some<br \/>\n  sites, and sites&#8217; rankings change. If your site was dropped from Google and you haven&#8217;t made major<br \/>\n  changes to it, we&#8217;ll likely pick it up again soon. If your site&#8217;s<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/get-your-website-on-google\/\">ranking changes<\/a>, ensure you are following<br \/>\n  our <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/search-essentials-overview\/\">guidelines<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  When you submit your Sitemap, you help us learn more about the contents of your site.<br \/>\n  Participation in this program will not affect your pages&#8217; rankings or cause your pages to be<br \/>\n  removed from our index.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-author\">Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanessafox.com\/\" class=\"external-link\">Vanessa Fox<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since we published this blog post. 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