You don't need to do this!

I know this goes against conventional thinking. People that tell you this, and encourage you to do this, are wrong.

Most of the software available not only indexes everything you want it to index, but it also indexes everything you don't want it to index.

Let me explain:

There are a lot of pages (in fact the majority of pages) on this site I don't really want to make availible to the general public. These are pages where I've uploaded scripts, programs and examples for potential clients to view. They aren't linked to the main site. Any automatic software used would have to have the results edited so these were not included.

Surprisingly enough! Google seems to know what to index and what not to index. Google doesn't seem to index pages that are not linked to other parts of the main website. As a matter of fact... it does a decent job of providing a site map. You can see my Google Site Map of HomeBusiness Websites here.

When you click that link it says 1 - 10 of about 434 and then links to the others. I didn't go through the whole list but I expect there must be some outside links mixed in there too. I can't imagine I've created 434 pages on this site that are meant to be viewed by the public — yet in the results I did search through I didn't find access to any pages I don't want the general public to have.

I was even able to find recent blog posts in there as recent as last week. Amazing!

What do you think? If I were to add a site map to my site... why wouldn't I just point it to this Google URL?