August 30, 2005
We just launched two new features.
Mobile Sitemaps
You can already use Google Mobile Web Search on your mobile phone to search through sites that have been specifically designed for mobile phones, PDAs, and other handheld devices. We add new sites to our mobile web index regularly.
You can help users find your mobile webpages by letting us know about those pages. Google Mobile Sitemaps lets you submit Sitemaps for URLs that serve mobile content. You create and submit a mobile Sitemap much in the same way you do other Sitemaps: with the Sitemap Generator, the Sitemap protocol, or via a syndication feed or text file.
The biggest difference with a mobile Sitemap is that you have to submit a separate one for each markup language. Right now we support:
- XHTML mobile profile (WAP 2.0)
- WML (WAP 1.2)
- cHTML (iMode)
When you submit your mobile Sitemap, let us know which markup language the URLs in the Sitemap serve.
New Site Statistics
Now you can see information for the URLs in your site that we've had trouble accessing—both for URLs from your Sitemap and those we've discovered during a regular crawl. We won't show you these additional statistics until you verify your site, which is a very simple process. Click the verify link next to the site on your My Sitemap page, create an empty file using the name we specify, and upload it to the folder where your Sitemap is located. We'll check to see that the file is there, which tells us that you have permission to upload files to that site, and then we'll show you the information.