Friday, June 10, 2005

Danny Sullivan on Google Sitemaps Pings and General Compatibility

searchenginewatch.com/blog

He points out that a most important point : "is that Google Sitemaps is new, not necessarily set in stone, and certain to develop. I'm just glad to finally have something that lets webmasters -- any webmaster -- feed URLs into the major search engines for consideration. We haven't had this for free, for everyone, since Infoseek back in like 1998 or 1999."

In summary as at Google Sitemaps (BETA) Help: "a simple text file listing all your URLs one by one is fine. Specific FAQ info is here. Also worth noting there are many different alternative formats you can use, including RSS 2.0. FAQ on that here. As for pinging, while you cannot ping that individual pages have been updated, you can ping that your sitemap overall has been updated. "

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