Ask.com Adds Sitemaps Autodiscovery Support

... . In addition, try this link you can see how an example pinging attempt looks. How does it work? From Ask's help files: Once you have prepared the sitemap, add the sitemap auto-discovery directive to robots.txt as follows: SITEMAP: http://www.the URL of your sitemap here.xml The sitemap location should ...

Jul. 17, 2007 at 5:11pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Search Engines Unite On Sitemaps Autodiscovery

... of it called autodiscovery. This is where the major search engines will automatically locate your sitemaps file if the location is listed in a robots.txt file. Announcements are up from Google and Ask now Yahoo and Microsoft. Information on how to create sitemaps files can be found at the Sitemaps.org ...
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Apr. 11, 2007 at 8:07am Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Sitemaps.org Update: You Can Now Store Your XML Sitemap Files Anywhere!

The major search engines have announced an update to the sitemaps.org protocol which enables site owners to store their XML Sitemap files in any location -- even on a different domain than the one referenced in the Sitemap. This will be a welcome change for those who manage multiple domains and would ...
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Feb. 27, 2008 at 9:13pm Eastern by Vanessa Fox

Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft Clarify Robots.txt Support

Today, Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft have come together to post details of how each of them support robots.txt and the robots meta tag. While their posts use terms like "collaboration" and "working together," they haven't joined together to implement a new standard (as they did ...
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Jun. 3, 2008 at 12:11pm Eastern by Vanessa Fox

Live Search Webmaster Center Gains Crawl Error And Backlinks Reports

... site owners Until a few years ago, the relationship between search engines and site owners was fairly limited. Site owners could block pages with robots.txt and otherwise hoped for the best. In 2005 Google and Yahoo! launched separate feed submission programs, as well as tools that gave webmasters a ...

Aug. 6, 2008 at 2:35pm Eastern by Vanessa Fox

SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 6, 2008

... Analysis 1.0.3!, Joost de Valk's SEO Blog Bad SEO Techniques That Will Hurt Your Google Rankings, Search Engine Journal Google Recommends You Split Sitemap Files By File Type, Search Engine Roundtable Keywords Without Ego, Search Engine Watch Webmasters Report June 2008 Google SERP Updates, Search Engine ...

Jun. 6, 2008 at 3:23pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Live Search Now Supporting Sitemaps Autodiscovery Via Robots.txt File

... that Microsoft Live Search is finally now supporting sitemaps via autodiscovery. Microsoft will only use your sitemaps file if it is listed in your robots.txt file. You cannot currently ping Microsoft or upload your sitemaps file to Microsoft. Microsoft, along with Ask.com, Google and Yahoo, united ...

Jul. 25, 2007 at 9:28am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Google Enhances Webmaster Central's Robots.txt Analysis Tool

The Google Webmaster Central Blog announced improvements they have made to the robots.txt analysis tool. The tool now recognizes all sitemap declarations and relative URLs. So now the tool will report the validity of all sitemaps URLs plus show data for relative URLs. In addition, Google has expanded ...
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Aug. 16, 2007 at 8:58am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 10, 2008

... , SEOmoz 12 Reputations Every Company Should Monitor Online, Marketing Pilgrim Bringing the SEO Teacher to You, Search Engine Watch Google Recommends robots.txt Sitemap Submission During Glitch, Search Engine Roundtable Google Search Mixing Up URLs , Search Engine Roundtable Increase Your Blog's RSS ...
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Apr. 10, 2008 at 3:57pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Search Year 2007: Search News, In Review

Each month, I compile Search Month -- a recap of all the stories that have happened relating to search, categorized by topic. I thought it would be fun to take all the Search Months over the past year and produce this edition of Search Year 2007. It was far more work than I imagined, but I hope you ...
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Jan. 1, 2008 at 2:29pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan