Search Engines Unite On Autodiscovery for Sitemaps
Posted • April 11, 2007 • 2 Comments
An article on search engine land states “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 engines. Today, the three are now joined by Ask.com in supporting the system and an extension of it called autodiscovery. This is where the major search engines will automatically locate your sitemaps file if the location is listed in a robots.txt file. Announcements are up from Google and Ask now Yahoo and Microsoft.
This is really great news for the SEO, Webmaster, or Website Owner.
It is a really simple process. All you have to do is add a little code to your robots.text file already on your server.
The code looks like this:
Sitemap: http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml
Would like to have more information on robots.txt files?
This little bit of code tells the search engines the exact location of your site map. (SWEET)
Don’t have a sitemap? If you would like to know more about sitemaps you can visit sitemaps.org.
Keep your robots.text and your sitemap.xml files up to date.
late,
Gary
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