blogrambler.com » Sitemap http://blogrambler.com Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:43:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 XML Sitemap Autodiscovery http://blogrambler.com/xml-sitemap-autodiscovery/ http://blogrambler.com/xml-sitemap-autodiscovery/#comments Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:10:30 +0000 alex http://blogrambler.com/xml-sitemap-autodiscovery/ In April 2007, Ask.com, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo announced the support of autodiscovery for the sitemap protocol. Using the Robots.txt file you can add a line to allow the search engines to auto discover your sitemap.

Today, Ask.com, Google, Microsoft Live Search and Yahoo! together are announcing support of autodiscovery of Sitemaps. The new open-format autodiscovery allows webmasters to specify the location of their Sitemaps within their robots.txt file, eliminating the need to submit sitemaps to each search engine separately. Source : ASK.com

It works !

Prior to this announcement I had setup a couple of new blogs. I added the xml sitemap autodiscovery option to the robots.txt file and it appears that it helped get these sites listed in the search engines. Up until this point I had no problems getting indexed accordingly with Google, the other 3 were very inconsistent. I have seen an increase in crawling and traffic from ASK, MS and Yahoo for each site that I have included the autodiscovery tag.

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Now the clock starts to see how long before it is included in the Google Index. Typically this timeframe is about 2 to 3 days.

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