I heard about Google Sitemaps shortly after it was released, and I decided to give it a try. I wrote a simple PHP script that maps a sitemap containing all my blog topics pages. Next, I added the sitemap file in my Google Sitemaps account. Since then, Google has requested my sitemap file a few times. I have not looked at my server logs to see what GoogleBot is indexing. Strangely, traffic to this site is way down from its peak earlier this month, and sproutsearch.com traffic is up. I figure maybe it's because of the similar content.

I also tried using a unicode symbol character of a sun in my page titles, but I have since removed it. I left the symbol on sproutsearch, however. I am waiting to see if it shows up in search results when Google updates its cache of sproutsearch.