SEO: Submitting & Sitemaps
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...