Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! coming together to Support Sitemaps

It is exciting news to hear that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! are coming together in support of the SiteMaps protocol. Sitemap protocol enables website owners everywhere to tell search engines about the content on their site instead of having to rely solely on crawl algorithms to find it. The main goal is to improve search results for customers around the world.

This kind of collaboration will help improve the search experience for all users. Read more about the Sitemaps protocol at the official website: http://www.sitemaps.org.

Once you have created the Sitemap file and placed it on your webserver, you submit it to search engines that support the Sitemaps protocol. You can also submit your Sitemap using an HTTP request (replace with the URL provided by the search engine):

Search Engine url /ping?sitemap=sitemap_url

Google Says: "The more Sitemaps eventually cover the entire web, the more we can revolutionize the way web crawlers interact with websites. In our view, the experiment is still underway"

Yahoo Says: "This should make is easier for web sites to provide search engines with content and metadata. And in turn, search engines can spend less time crawling unchanged pages and can update indexes faster as new content is discovered"

MSN Says: "why are we excited to work on this? Because by agreeing on a standard, we can provide site owners with one simple way to share information with every search engine."

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