Google Sitemaps lets you provide Google with your site’s structure and update frequency to help them index it more efficiently. It’s particularly useful if you have a site without a real physical file structure, like WordPress. The Google Sitemap Plugin handily creates one for your blog.
It also lets you include additional pages, but my 2252 static pages (mostly the photo album) called for another approach. This Perl Google Sitemap generator did the trick, and even exposed a few bad filenames. The resulting file then needs to be manually submitted to Google; one last step would be to add an automatic ping to Google when it’s updated.
del.icio.us/mbotos
