Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Google Sitemaps Gains Support from Yahoo and MSN

The uptake of Google Sitemaps by webmasters has resulted in an unexpected alliance between Google, Yahoo and MSN. The three search giants have joined forces to launch Sitemaps.org, a new webmaster protocol to encourage a web standard for sitemap creation and submission.

Included in the protocol is:
  • an XML schema format recommended for sitemaps
  • definitions of the various XML tags
  • detailed instructions for sitemap creation
  • sitemap validation tools
  • instructions for alerting search engine crawlers about your sitemap
Looks like paid trusted feed services are dead and buried! Good riddance. And if you're looking for a free XML sitemap creator, check out this one.

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1 Comments:

At 6:27 PM , Hong Xiaowan's Studio said...

Introduce new protocol

Sitebases, the next protocol after Sitemaps
It can save the time and press for the search engine, also for the websites.
It can bring new search engine that named Search Engine 2.0 .
Using Sitebases protocol, will save 95% bandwidth above. It is another sample for long tail theory.
In this protocol, I suggested that all search engine can share their Big Sitebases each other, so the webmaster just need to submit their Sitebases to one Search Engine.
And I suggested that all search engines can open their search API for free and unlimited using.

Please visit: http://www.sitebases.org/protocol

 

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