SEO > SEO: Submitting & Sitemaps
Feb. 27, 2008 at 9:13pm by Vanessa Fox
Sitemaps.org Update: You Can Now Store Your XML Sitemap Files Anywhere!
The major search engines have announced an update to the sitemaps.org protocol which enables site owners to store their XML Sitemap files in any location -- even on a different domain than the one referenced in the Sitemap. This will be a welcome change for those who manage multiple domains...
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Jan. 16, 2008 at 9:12am by Barry Schwartz
Google Writes Google Sitemaps FAQs
The Google Webmaster Central Blog has posted a Sitemaps FAQs blog post. In this blog post, Google responds to some of the most asked questions on the Sitemaps protocol and how Google supports it. Some of the questions include:...
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Oct. 26, 2007 at 4:06am by Vanessa Fox
Consolidating Sitemap Files With Google
Mickey Kataria has posted on the Google Webmaster Central blog that if you can verify ownership of multiple sites, you can consolidate the Sitemap files for those sites and either combine the URLs from those sites into one Sitemap or create separate files for each site, but store the files...
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Jul. 25, 2007 at 9:28am by Barry Schwartz
Live Search Now Supporting Sitemaps Autodiscovery Via Robots.txt File
This morning I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable that Microsoft Live Search is finally now supporting sitemaps via autodiscovery. Microsoft will only use your sitemaps file if it is listed in your robots.txt file. You cannot currently ping Microsoft or upload your sitemaps file to Microsoft....
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Jul. 17, 2007 at 5:11pm by Barry Schwartz
Ask.com Adds Sitemaps Autodiscovery Support
It appears that Ask.com is now implementing support for the Sitemaps protocol that they got behind back in April. One of our readers commented here notifying us that Ask.com added a pinging service for autodiscovery. Checking further, I found the details on how to ping Ask.com is its Webmaster Help...
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Apr. 30, 2007 at 12:01am by Chris Sherman
Google Helps States Surface Government Information
Google has announced an initiative with state agencies in Arizona, California, Utah and Virginia to help expose government information to web search engines. Often, government information is stored in database systems that are difficult if not impossible for search engine crawlers to access and index. Google is working with technologists...
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Apr. 16, 2007 at 1:15pm by Christine Churchill
Up Close & Personal With Robots.txt
The Robots.txt Summit at Search Engine Strategies New York 2007 was the latest in a series of special sessions with the intent to open a dialog between search engines representatives and web site publishers. Past summits featured discussion on comment spam on blogs, indexing issues and redirects. The subject of...
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Apr. 11, 2007 at 8:07am by Danny Sullivan
Search Engines Unite On Sitemaps Autodiscovery
Last November, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo united to support sitemaps, a standardized method of submitting web pages through feeds to the search engines. Today, the three are now joined by Ask.com in supporting the system and an extension of it called autodiscovery. This is where the major search engines will...
