February 28, 2008
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Unite on Cross-Submission of Sitemaps
In trying to help webmaster’s life easier, at least the three top search engines could agree on something. As announced in their respective webmasters’ blogs, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are unison in adhering to the cross-submission of sitemaps to the three search engines.
With the simultaneous announcement of the three search engines, webmasters who are managing several websites, each with its own sitemap hosted on the sites URL, can now make these sitemaps hosted in just one site. Previously, the search engines requires that sitemaps have the same host and path as the URLs they contain. But with this addition to the sitemap protocol, all that webmasters need to do is to reference the sitemaps URLs and path in the robot.txt where the URLs it contain are hosted. (more…)
