The big search players Google, Yahoo, Ask and MSN together announced they??™ll be adding a new way for you to tell them where you store your Sitemap XML file. Just add a line like this one in your robots.txt file:
Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
As Sitemaps.org explains, Sitemaps are a way to tell search engines of your URLs to help their crawlers index them. I can??™t find any use for investing the extra work of preparing a Sitemap myself, because search engines already discover linked content fine. (I did submit the blog??™s RSS file to Google??™s Webmaster tools, though.)
[Thanks Denise W. and Niraj Sanghvi!]
[By Philipp Lenssen | Original post | Comments]
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