Straight from Google…
“Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to help improve your coverage in the Google index. It’s a collaborative crawling system that enables you to communicate directly with Google to keep Google informed of all your web pages, and when you make changes to these pages.”
It’s a free service. Here’s the sign-up/log-in page.
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login
To learn more about Google Sitemaps visit Google at:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/about.html
Within the past week alone I’ve received several email offers selling Google Site Map Software that generates the XML file needed for $150 to $200 a pop.
DO NOT buy this software! Why?
Because here’s a list of Free Google Sitemap tools.
Highly recommend this one!
http://johannesmueller.com/gs/
http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/sitemap-generator.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/goog-sitemapgen/
http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final
http://www.blocklayer.com/googlesitemap/Default.aspx
I’ve had Three 800+ page web sites get completely crawled in under 24 hours!
Most people don’t know about this New Back Door into Google, so Submit your sites to Google today while the crawling is quick.
and being spidered by Google fast is a good way to get listed in Google. And getting listed is the first step to get higher position and Google Rank. And all the traffic that comes with it.
An ultimately this is what it's all about - quality search engine traffic.
NEW Google Sitemaps: Get Spidered by Google in Record Time. 48 Hours or Less!
