Google Sitemaps` Big May Update - Welcome to The New Sitemaps
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You will probably notice differences in Google Sitemaps as soon as you log in. Instead of having separate tabs for your current sites and to add sites, Google has put everything onto the front page. It's faster to use, and somehow Google made a page with more on it feel cleaner and less cluttered.
All the links that used to occupy the top space moved down to the bottom or to more relevant places. The "Tools" link seems like the only unnecessary thing here. It just targets the four links at the bottom and doesn't seem to work in Opera.
Those links at the bottom, you may notice, have some additions too. "Download this table" is nothing new, as it is the same as the old "Download as .csv file." The next link, as the name would suggest, offers more options for downloading data.
Google has also been so kind as to give fast and convenient locations for the links to their spam reporting tool and re-inclusion request form. These tools were around, but you had to find them separately before. Pulling them into the webmaster tools offered by Sitemaps was a great idea.
The spam report is pretty straight forward. Just copy the query, the URL, and the offenses. The list of offenses shows how routine it is for Google to work on getting rid of specific problems, and they also say that they will investigate every spam claim. Google is definitely on the right track with his one.
The re-inclusion request lets you select the removed site from a dropdown menu of your sitemaps. Then you check off the three boxes to say (1) I know I was wrong, (2) I will mend my ways, and (3) I know what you want me to do now. Beneath all this you can write Google an apology letter.
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