Article: "What Good are Google Sitemaps?" Discusses the advantages to Google Sitemaps, the Sitemap standard between Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, and how to create a Sitemap file through third party Sitemap generators.

Article: "Google Sitemaps Explained" by Titus Hoskins. Learn three ways (difficult, hard and easy) to index your site with Google Sitemaps. Discusses the Google Sitemap protocol and XML Sitemap generators.

Article: "Google Sitemaps Protocol." Learn the XML schema used in the Google Sitemap Protocol. Provides an example XML Sitemap file and other notes about the Sitemap protocol and specifications. Google recommendation to where to store the Sitemap file is explained.

Article: "Google Optimization" posted on SEOChat.com by the team from DeveloperShed.com, a site targeted to developer and IT professionals. Reviews Google Sitemaps, explains Google Sitemap statistics such as query stats, crawl stats, page analysis and index stats; discusses Google error reporting, Google's performance and details, and more.

Article: "Google Sitemaps Wants Your URLs" by Vanessa Fox. Explains the advantages of using Google's Webmaster Tools, how Sitemaps can benefit all webmasters, and why you should be using Sitemaps today. Also learn about query stats, crawl stats and page analysis from Google.

Article: "How to make Use of Google SiteMaps." Discusses the Google Sitemap Protocol, populating the Sitemap file, creating a dynamic Sitemap XML file, Google Sitemaps crawler stats, links to Google Sitemap tools and generators, and more.

Google Webmaster Tools, Using the Sitemap Generator. Explains how to download the Sitemap Generator program files, learn how to create a configuration file, upload the files to a web server, run the Sitemap Generator script, and submit the Sitemap to Google.

Google Webmaster Tools document "Using the Sitemap Protocol." Explains an overview of the Sitemap Protocol, the XML Sitemap format, using Sitemap index files, the location of Sitemap files, validating Sitemaps, and FAQ. Examples of the XML Sitemap format and files are provided.