[Gareth]

You might want to tell your friend to consider using the following free service from Google...

Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to submit all your URLs to the Google index and obtain detailed reports about the visibility of your pages on Google. With Google Sitemaps, you can automatically keep us informed of all your web pages, and when you make changes to these pages to help improve your coverage in the Google crawl.

With Google Sitemaps you get:
Better crawl coverage and fresher search results to help people find more of your web pages.
A smarter crawl because you can tell us when a page was last modified or how frequently a page changes.
Detailed reports to learn more about how Google directs traffic to your site and how the Googlebot sees your pages.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login