Google has acknowledged some issues that Google News publishers have encountered with Webmaster Tools. The company posted to the Google News blog to let publishers know what the issues were and that they are working on fixing them.
Attention Webmasters: Google Sitemaps Updates
Google has been working on updates to how it uses sitemaps. Considering research highlighted in this study (pdf), which showed how search engines find new and changed content faster with sitemaps, webmasters should take note.
On-Demand XML Sitemaps for Custom Search
Google has come up with another nice webmaster tool.
Answers To Google Sitemaps Questions
Susan Moskwa and Trever Voucher from Google’s Webmaster Tools Team published a synopsis of the questions they received at Chicago’s recent Search Engine Strategies Conference. If you have ever had a question about Google Sitemaps and the effect they may or may not have on your site, this is a helpful read.Get the answers to the following questions:
Google Teaches Robots Tool About Sitemaps
The robots.txt analysis tool at Google Webmaster Central received some much-needed updating, and should be more effective for webmasters today.
Q&A – Google Sitemaps and Frames
Dear Kalena…
I have two sites; One www.alpine-property.com is top of Google rankings for all my chosen keywords, it has no frames, daily updated content and lots of inbound links, so not surprising.
Should SEOs Avoid Sitemaps?
Rand Fishkin recently posted an interesting concept on his SEOmoz.org blog about sitemaps. For those of you keeping score at home, a sitemap is a document (typically xml) that sits on your server and helps search engine spiders crawl and index your site. Sounds great, right? Maybe… maybe not. Rand theorizes these sitemaps may actually be bad for your SEO efforts.
SEO and Sitemaps
If you follow search engine news you know that the major search engines are fighting tooth and nail for market share.
Google Helps News Publishers With Sitemaps
An expressed desire for better indexing from Google News has prompted Google to release a Sitemaps product specifically for those news publishers.
New Sitemaps For Google News
Google has introduced sitemaps for Google News. So if you have a site included in Google News, you can creat and submit News Sitemaps to inform Google about the articles that you wish to be included in Google News.