By now most sites have updated and enhanced content in order to appeal to search engines, and Google in particular. Optimized keywords and key phrases will increase the popularity of your links and at some point Google will spider your site if it is optimized. Googles methodology is constantly second-guessed, but the algorithms are top secret and ever-changing. The Google bot may spider any part of your site during a visit, so its in your best interest to optimize your site overall with quality content, blogs and easy navigation. Because Googles bot searches so many pages, may of which are unchanged or inactive, getting your entire site spidered may take quite some time.

To get your site spidered more quickly and efficiently, you can submit it to Google Sitemaps. Google offers a sitemap generator that you can use to provide them additional information on your site. This is particularly important when your site is one where all pages are not connected with traditional links, such as those with dynamically created pages. Once your site has been spidered, it is added to the Google index, and the spider will return at some point. If you have made changes to your site, such as adding pages or a significant amount of keyworded content, it would be wise to submit an update to Google Sitemaps

Google provides their Sitemaps service free of charge in an effort to provide more current information in their index. By collaborating with webmasters it has produced a win-win in terms of better and more current search information, one that site managers should take advantage of.