April 13, 2007

Informetion about Site Map

Here am giving few new information about site maps and its use

Sitemaps are an easy method for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.

Sitemap 0.90 is offered under the terms of the Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License and has wide adoption, including support from Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft.

Major search engines improve Sitemap protocol.
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft join forces.

The vendors announced they have enhanced Sitemap, a protocol designed to simplify how webmasters and online publishers submit their sites' content for indexing in search engines.
The rare collaboration between search rivals Google, Yahoo and Microsoft over site maps has yielded its first result.

YAHOO
SEARCH BLOG.

A look inside the world of search from the people at Yahoo!

Site Explorer Matures a Bit More and Accepts Mobile Feeds | Main.

Webmasters Can Now DO Auto-Discover With Sitemaps.

Since working with Google and Microsoft to support a single format for submission with Sitemaps, we have continued to discuss further enhancements to make it easy for webmasters to get their content to all search engines quickly.

All search crawlers recognize robots.txt, so it seemed like a good idea to use that mechanism to allow webmasters to share their Sitemaps. You agreed and encouraged us to allow robots.txt discovery of Sitemaps on our suggestion board. We took the idea to Google and Microsoft and are happy to announce today that you can now find your sitemaps in a uniform way across all participating engines. To do this, simply add the following line to your robots.txt file:

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml

Please provide the complete URL for your Sitemap on this line. We will pick it up wherever you put it in your robots.txt file. This directive is not specific to user-agent. If you have multiple Sitemaps, you can point to your Sitemap index file on this line. Details about the Sitemaps protocol including this addition are available on the protocol website -- http://www.sitemaps.org.

If you prefer, you can continue to issue Sitemaps to Yahoo! Search by simply inputting the URL for your Sitemap and submitting. Or add feeds to a site you are already managing under 'My Sites' in Site Explorer. This also allows us to provide more feedback to you about what we are doing with the sitemap.

We're also happy to have some east coasters, Ask and IBM, announce their support for Sitemaps. The more the merrier!

We'll also be sharing more this week at SES NY.

If you have other thoughts about how we can collaborate with other search engines on standards such as robots.txt, we'd love to hear from you -- visit our suggestion board.

Writen By Biswaranjan Nayak
Thanks and keep the list growing,

Nayak,
Logixworld! Search

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