Search Engines To Offer Sitemap Auto-Discovery
April 11th, 2007
Some months ago Google, Live.com and Yahoo! have teamed up to support sitemaps as an industry standard, that makes it easy for webmasters to get their content to all search engines quickly. Today, they have announced a new addition to their service, called Auto-Discover. You can specify the location of the Sitemap using a robots.txt file. To do this, simply add the following line:
Sitemap: <sitemap_location>
The <sitemap_location> should be the complete URL to the Sitemap, such as: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
This directive is independent of the user-agent line, so it doesn’t matter where you place it in your file. If you have a Sitemap index file, you can include the location of just that file. You don’t need to list each individual Sitemap listed in the index file.
In addition to this, Ask.com is now also supporting Sitemaps.
Entry Filed under: Ask.com, Google, Microsoft / Live.com, Yahoo!
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