Success Stories

Here are a few articles about how some government agencies have used Sitemaps to make information on their sites easier to find.

Case Studies

State of Arizona implements sitemaps and significantly expands citizen access to public information

In less than 50 technical staff hours, Arizona's Government Information Technology Agency made hundreds of thousands of public records and other webpages "crawlable" to search engines and visible in Google search results.

Press Coverage

"State, Google Partner to Open Records," Tallahassee.com, Stephen D. Price, December 4, 2007

"Google, State of Michigan Announce Partnership to Enhance Internet Search Capabilities," Government Technology, July 19, 2007

"Public Data Gone Wild: The Google Public Sector Initiative," Search Insider, Rob Garner, June 20, 2007.

"Google Burrows into State Government Data," NewsBreaks, Barbara Quint, May 7, 2007

"Google, 4 States Partner on Government Info Search," Reuters, Eric Auchard, April 30, 2007

"Google and Four US States Improve Public Access to Government Websites," Google Press Center, April 30, 2007.

"Web Sites Get Results-oriented: Agencies Are Working with Google to Boost Rankings and Increase Traffic," Government Computer News (GCN), Trudy Walsh, April 16, 2007