With reference to our previous article: Introducing Yahoo! Sitemaps back in September 2005, I’ve recently received a couple of emails plus heard a few rumours stating that Yahoo! does not recognize a standard text file (e.g. sitemap.txt) containing a list of your site’s URL’s.
Google Updates Sitemaps
The webmaster-friendly project started by Google over the summer has its own blog and some new features available for its users.
Google Sitemaps makes a tool available that lets site publishers create a map Google’s spiders can use to more effectively index its content. On the official Google Blog, Grace Kwak posted about some new features in the Sitemaps service.
Bulk Inclusion with Yahoo and Google Sitemaps
One of the most common problems many large web sites have with rankings is that portions of their web sites are not included in the search engines.
Google Launches Mobile Sitemaps
If you design web pages designed for mobile users or if you develop two versions of your web pages, one for the web users and one for the mobile users, then Google has a tool designed to make acceptance into Google’s mobile web index all the more easier.
Google Sitemaps – 7 Benefits You Can’t Ignore
Google Sitemaps enables Webmasters to Directly Alert Google to Changes and Additions on a Website and that’s just one of 7 Benefits.
Google SiteMaps and You
Last week, we looked (http://www.cafeid.com/art-rss.shtml) at the recent news that Microsoft had decided to embrace RSS in a big way in its upcoming releases of Internet Explorer and Windows “Longhorn” and determined that this was a Good Thing.
Google Sitemaps To Be An Essential Part of SEO
Jeremy Zawodny makes a point about how there already is a system in place where blogs ping services like Feedster and Technorati which Google Sitemaps could use, instead of its similar XML system.
Google Sitemaps Improves Indexing
A new experiment from Google Labs allows sitemasters with a Google account to request more frequent spidering from the Mountain View-based search engine.
Google Sitemaps: RSS For The Entire Website?
Well, not really. But Google Sitemaps does employ XML technology in order to provide its program members the opportunity to have their site crawled after they make updates or alterations.
Sitemaps and Hypertext Links: “Food” for Search Engine Robots
Sitemaps and hypertext links are “food” for search engine robots. We will look at the value of text links for optimal spidering, and the importance of using a sitemap in order to help search engine robots reach your website’s deeper pages.