Enhancements to Sitemaps!
"... webmasters could notify the search engines of the URLs on their site that they wanted crawled.
Sitemaps are an extremely useful tool provided by the search engines to make it easier to ensure that the pages of your web site get crawled effectively. Recently, the search engines established a standard protocol so that different engines would use the same technique for indexing a site. Now, the engines have simplified the process even further by providing a means of referring the crawlers to the location of the site map on the site.
In simple terms, they have just provided a line of code within the robots.txt file to point to the sitemap for the site. Since all search engine crawlers check this file when visiting a site, it is a simple way to inform them of where to find the sitemap.
The code line is:
Sitemap: http://www.mysitename.com/sitemap.xml
All you have to do is add this line to your robots.txt file in the root directory of your website.
What could be simpler?
Sitemaps are an extremely useful tool provided by the search engines to make it easier to ensure that the pages of your web site get crawled effectively. Recently, the search engines established a standard protocol so that different engines would use the same technique for indexing a site. Now, the engines have simplified the process even further by providing a means of referring the crawlers to the location of the site map on the site.
In simple terms, they have just provided a line of code within the robots.txt file to point to the sitemap for the site. Since all search engine crawlers check this file when visiting a site, it is a simple way to inform them of where to find the sitemap.
The code line is:
Sitemap: http://www.mysitename.com/sitemap.xml
All you have to do is add this line to your robots.txt file in the root directory of your website.
What could be simpler?
Labels: optimization, web tools, webmaster
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