Comments on: Ask.com Adds Sitemaps Autodiscovery Support

By: beatngu

beatngu — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:47:31 +0000

Never refer to your xml sitemaps, not on your website, not even in your robots.txt. instead, use strange namespacing for them, and use f.e. google webmaster tools to discover the sitemap.
unless u want to be open to content hijacking.

By: Baby

Baby — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:09:09 +0000

We
Blogged this back in mid June also, but honestly it hasn’t helped much with
Ask indexing…still need a strong link to pull you in. Ask is such a small index and very picky.

By: Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:47:37 +0000

This is welcome news indeed. I’d also like to see the search engines agree on a unified site authentication protocol. I really don’t want to have to embed a different file or meta tag for each search engine in every site.

By: Joel Downs

Joel Downs — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:16:34 +0000

Anyone know if the syntax is the same to point to a sitemap index file as it is to point to a regular sitemap file? I assume I don’t have to list out every sitemap file individually…