# Using sitemap tool to get Google to index all your fundraising content

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/07/20/using-sitemap-tool-get-google-index-all-your-fundraising-content/
- Published: 2005-07-20T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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While Google will drive a good proportion of visitors to your fundraising web pages,
there are plenty of ways of helping the search engine index more of your pages. 
The latest edition of Dr. Ralph Wilson’s Web Marketing Today gives details of how
to do this using Google sitemaps.
Dr Wilson’s Web Marketing Today is a free weekly
email newsletter that has been running for 10 years, and even now it can still deliver
some new and valuable advice on the subject.

This week’s issue encourages website owners to use Google Sitemap, “a system of 
submitting an XML-based sitemap directly to Google that will help their spider robot
more easily index larger sites”. In other words, you can help Google index all the
pages on your site by providing it with a list of these pages in a format it can
handle.

In addition, the sitemap format will also help Google’s indexing system understand
which pages are updated most often.

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Wilson lists a number of software tools that can deliver the sitemap, some for smaller
sites and some for larger. Several of them are available at no charge, although 
will require some website manager experience.

Google Sitemaps is still in beta testing, so is not yet a fully fledged service,
but UK Fundraising will be establishing an appropriate tool and adding this facility
to its site in due course.

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