Google Sitemaps Team Interview

" Google Sitemaps was launched in June 2005 to enhance Google's Web crawling process in cooperation with Webmasters and site owners. Collaborative crawling takes Webmasters into the boat to some degree, and both sides did learn a lot from each other in the last months. Googles Sitemaps Team does listen to Joe Webmasters needs, questions, and suggestions. They have implemented a lot of very useful features based on suggestions in the Google Sitemaps Group, an open forum where members of the Sitemaps team communicate with their users, handing out technical advice even on weekends. The nickname Google Employee used by the Sitemaps team makes it regularly on the list of This month's top posters.

The Sitemaps community, producing an average of 1,500 posts monthly, suffered from repetitive topics diluting the archives. As the idea of a Google Sitemaps Knowledge Base was born in the group, I've discussed the idea with the Sitemaps team. Vanessa Fox, who is blogging for the Sitemaps team from Kirkland, Washington, suggested doing "an email interview to answer some of the more frequently asked questions", so here we are ... "

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