After getting my website verified to Google and submitting robots.txt file to my blog’s root directory, the next thing I did is submitting a sitemap in to my blog. What is sitemap and why you need it? As I explained previously that when you build a blog or website and put some articles on it, sooner or later Google will ultimately find them. But, for your profit blogging challenge (and, in today generally speaking) the sooner your website getting cached and indexed by Google the better for you to be success. So, submitting sitemap to Google is one way to get your website getting indexed sooner. For more details explanation about sitemap, please read this Google Sitemaps tutorial.

Creating a sitemap for WordPress platform is quite easy since there is a wonderful plugin that can help you creating it without any advanced programming skill. All you have to do is download the Google XML Sitemaps Generator and uploading it to your blog plugins directory and then activate the plugin. Then you make a link from your website’s homepage to this sitemap page. All set and done. As an example of how the sitemap looks like, you can see my Busby SEO Test sitemap.

After creating and installing your sitemap, then log in to your Google Webmaster Tools account and submit your website’s sitemap page address to the coloumn for sitemap submission. Then wait for one day to let Google search engine find and verify it. If your sitemap format is comply with sitemap protocols then Google will show up all the pages cached and indexed from your website.
From my experience, by submitting Google sitemap, whenever you wrote a new article post, it will get indexed by Google search engine in less than an hour.