April 21, 2006<\/p>\n
\n We had a great time meeting with webmasters and talking about Sitemaps at We’ve done two blog posts about this that you might find helpful:<\/p>\n \n We have lots of advice<\/a>! And if you are \n I sat in on the \n Thanks to everyone who came up to say hello. And thanks for all the great questions and feedback.\n<\/p>\n
\n Pubcon<\/a> in Boston. We value feedback and
\n suggestions, and appreciate our
\n Google Group<\/a>
\n posters. But it’s great to be able to talk to webmasters in person too. For those of you who
\n couldn’t be there for in-person conversation, here’s a recap of the top three questions we were
\n asked.\n<\/p>\nWhat’s the best way to go about changing domain names?<\/h2>\n
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Do you have any advice for using a robots.txt file?<\/h2>\n
\n thinking of creating a robots.txt file for your site or modifying your existing one, be sure to
\n check out the
\n Sitemaps robots.txt analysis tool<\/a>
\n so you can test how Googlebot will see your file.\n<\/p>\nCan you look at my site and tell me how to get better ranking and indexing?<\/h2>\n
\n Organic Site Reviews<\/a>
\n panel, where the panelists were giving out lots of great advice about this. Check out my
\n guest post<\/a>
\n in Matt Cutts’ blog for the highlights.\n<\/p>\n