I have always been a big proponent of having a sitemap for your site. I feel that it was a major part of why Google starting indexing my blog so quickly. Now Google, MSN, Yahoo, and Ask have announced a partnership, a uniform support for sitemap files. If you already have a [...]
I have always been a big proponent of having a sitemap for your site. I feel that it was a major part of why Google starting indexing my blog so quickly. Now Google, MSN, Yahoo, and Ask have announced a partnership, a uniform support for sitemap files. If you already have a sitemap file, getting it crawled by these guys is easy, simply add this line to your robots.txt file:
Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
Your sitemap will now be supported by all the major search engines, and automatically crawled. This is the most effective way to make sure they all see your new content, as it’s specifically telling them the pages that are on your site.
For those of you with Wordpress, check out my list of top 10 Wordpress plugins. One of them is a sitemap generator. Simply turn it on, change some options, and all the work is done for you.
For those of you interested in more information, check out the announcements made by each search engine:
Gotta love standards on the web! Especially when all of the major companies comply.
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04/14/2007 4:29 amThere’s a lot of buzz about this robots and sitemap tip doing the rounds, I’ve implemented it on my site, fingers crossed that it helps boost my rank.
Thanks
db