Using Sitemaps just got easier
April 12th, 2007 by Robert
According to the Search Engine Watch site, the major search engines have worked up and idea to allow autodiscovery of sitemaps. For those not familiar, the sitemap protocol was originally conceived by Google as a means of allowing webmasters to create an XML file that Google uses for determining what URLs to index on a site.
Later, Microsoft and Yahoo joined in the idea and they formed a common sitemap protocol which can be found at sitemaps.org.
The big news however is that by using the robots.txt file, you can tell a search engine what the URL is for your sitemap instead of having to supply it manually to the search engine as previously required. This can be done by using add an entry like: Sitemap: http://mogul.macsimumweb.com/sitemap.xml. Just make sure you have the URL correct and you are good to go.
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