SEO: Submitting & Sitemaps

Meet The SEOs: Up Close @SMX West 2015

What's the latest on how top SEOs are handling the challenges of the business? Contributor Janet Driscoll Miller recaps a key panel discussion...

Janet Driscoll Miller | Mar 9, 2015 at 4:45 pm ET

The B2B SEO Opportunity In Organizational Mergers & Acquisitions

Mergers and acquisitions present unique opportunities and challenges for B2B search marketers. Columnist Derek Edmond explains how to plan and...

Derek Edmond | Jan 14, 2015 at 11:07 am ET

Bing Sitemaps Best Practices & Large Site Sitemaps Issues

Bing has posted on the Bing Webmaster blog their best practices on how to implement XML Sitemaps files for your site. The post includes a large...

Barry Schwartz | Jun 11, 2014 at 9:06 am ET

Bing Officially Releases Bing XML Sitemap Plugin 1.0

After releasing a preview of the Bing sitemap plugin a few months ago, Bing is ready to officially launch the Bing XML Sitemap Plugin 1.0 to the...

Barry Schwartz | May 24, 2013 at 9:08 am ET

The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Internal Linking Strategy

It’s not the first thing you think of when you hear “link building.” It’s definitely not the sexiest aspect of link building....

Erin Everhart | May 7, 2013 at 9:24 am ET

Using the X-Default Hreflang Tag For Multinational SEO: Default Language Opportunities

Google & Yandex announced the new x-default hreflang tag earlier this month, and in doing so closed the final gap in executing 'perfect' SEO...

Chris Liversidge | Apr 18, 2013 at 2:00 pm ET

Google Recommending New Video Schema.org Markup

Google announced on the Google Webmaster Central blog that they are now adding video support for schema.org. They are doing this in combination...

Barry Schwartz | Feb 22, 2012 at 10:13 am ET

Now Test Your Sitemaps Before Submitting Them To Google

Google has quietly added a feature to Google Webmaster Tools that allows you to test your sitemap files prior to submitting them to Google....

Barry Schwartz | Jan 26, 2012 at 1:33 pm ET

Video Sitemaps Errors Now In Google Webmaster Tools Labs

Google has added a new report to the Google Webmaster Tools Labs section. The new report is named “Video Sitemaps” and it should...

Barry Schwartz | Aug 9, 2010 at 9:33 am ET

Google XML Sitemaps Now Supports Multiple Types: Is the Sitemaps Alliance Over?

Since Google launched XML Sitemaps back in 2005, they’ve added specialized formats to enable site  owners to submit content other than...

Vanessa Fox | Jun 30, 2010 at 12:06 am ET

Local Newspapers Need To Embrace SEO To Survive

It's no secret that newspapers have been struggling with the disruptive innovations introduced by Google, and this has resulted in some level of...

Chris Silver Smith | Nov 9, 2009 at 7:00 am ET

Canonical Tag 2.0: Google To Add Cross Domain Support

Many site owners have wanted the recently introduced canonical tag to work across domains. Now their wishes will come true. Google announced...

Barry Schwartz | Oct 5, 2009 at 1:10 pm ET

How To Optimize Feeds To Maximize Your Exposure In Shopping Engine Results

Each day millions of online shoppers turn to comparison shopping engines (CSEs) to compare prices, read reviews, research products and make...

Arpana Tiwari | May 6, 2009 at 1:38 pm ET

Google Study On Sitemaps

The Google Webmaster Central blog notified us that Googlers have presented a new study on Sitemaps at the WWW’09 conference in Madrid. The...

Barry Schwartz | Apr 28, 2009 at 10:05 am ET

Google’s Advice On Using The New Canonical Tag

A month ago, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft announced they will be supporting a new canonical tag that allows you to tell search engines that page...

Barry Schwartz | Mar 13, 2009 at 9:19 am ET

Google Creates Smart Sitemap Generator Tool

The Google Webmaster Central blog announced that they have just released a new Sitemap generator that works on both Linux/Apache and Microsoft...

Barry Schwartz | Jan 14, 2009 at 9:07 am ET

Report: Sitemaps Decrease Crawler Response Time

An SEOMoz post has documented statistics on how submitting a Sitemap to Google and Yahoo impacts the rate of crawling that web site. The results...

Barry Schwartz | Jan 7, 2009 at 9:32 am ET

Sitemaps.org Update: You Can Now Store Your XML Sitemap Files Anywhere!

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Vanessa Fox | Feb 27, 2008 at 9:13 pm ET

Google Writes Google Sitemaps FAQs

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Barry Schwartz | Jan 16, 2008 at 9:12 am ET

Consolidating Sitemap Files With Google

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Vanessa Fox | Oct 26, 2007 at 4:06 am ET