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| Google, Yahoo and Microsoft team up for Sitemaps protocol |
| 29 March 2007 |
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft team up for Sitemaps protocol: "Andre Voget, Johannes Selbach, Axandra CEO
1. Google, Yahoo and Microsoft team up for Sitemaps protocol
Last week, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft agreed to support the Sitemap 0.9 protocol. How can this new standard help you to improve the ranking of your web site in search engines?
What are sitemaps and what is the Sitemaps protocol?
Sitemaps are an easy way 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
* how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site
This helps search engines to more intelligently crawl your site.
The Sitemaps 0.9 protocol is a new standard that will make it easier to create a sitemap that can be parsed by all search engines.
How can you benefit from this new standard?
Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the sitemap and learn about those URLs using the associated metadata.
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