April 11, 2007 Comments
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Google, MSN ,Yahoo and ASK have announced uniform support for a sitemap submission to all search engines.
Simply by adding the following line of code into your robots.txt file, the engines will know where your sitemap is located on the server and pick it up on their routine crawls.
Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
Obviously, replacing the URL above with the URL of your sitemap index file. Neither of these announcements was specific but looking at the example provided by Yahoo this does appear to support sitempas exported into an XML file, not just an HTML file.
Stoney deGeyter is the President of Pole Position Marketing, a leading search engine optimization and marketing firm helping businesses grow since 1998. Stoney is a frequent speaker at website marketing conferences and has published hundreds of helpful SEO, SEM and small business articles.
If you'd like Stoney deGeyter to speak at your conference, seminar, workshop or provide in-house training to your team, contact him via his site or by phone at 866-685-3374.
Stoney pioneered the concept of Destination Search Engine Marketing which is the driving philosophy of how Pole Position Marketing helps clients expand their online presence and grow their businesses. Stoney is Associate Editor at Search Engine Guide and has written several SEO and SEM e-books including E-Marketing Performance; The Best Damn Web Marketing Checklist, Period!; Keyword Research and Selection, Destination Search Engine Marketing, and more.
Stoney has five wonderful children and spends far too much of his free time watching TV. He is also a master of useless trivia and obscure movie quotes.
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