Wow! Did I miss hell freezing over? Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! – the three major search engines – have United to Support Sitemaps. This can be nothing but good for web developers and content creators. As all web publishers and bloggers should know in 2006, Sitemaps are simple XML files that help search engines determine how to spider your site and how often to do it. For more coverage of this news check out some of these links…
- Yahoo, Google and Microsoft join forces (really !!) behind Sitemaps
- Search Engines Unite On Unified Sitemaps System
- Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Agree to Standard Sitemaps Protocol
- Joint support for the Sitemap Protocol
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Whoa… How’d I miss that? I guess a new project will be to automatically have CMS’s generate a sitemap.
Doesn’t look like they automatically check for the file though. That’d be nicer than having to submit it.
Nice to see that search engines collaborate and develop new standards