Yahoo, Google and Microsoft Team Up on Sitemaps
Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft have all announced that they’ve agreed to set a standard for sitemaps. DiggSpeak Translation: "Amazing! Top Ten Reasons to use Sitemaps" Sitemaps are those XML files that list all the pages on your Web site. Search engines like to have all the listings in one place so that a site can be indexed without anything being missed. The protocol has now been released under Creative Commons, so any search engine can pick up on it if they like. Most webmasters / developers and web site owners use sitemaps, and there is plenty of sample code to generate these dynamically. We use sitemaps on our Eggheadcafe.com site, and I believe they result in much better indexing. Plus, you can specify how often the bots should crawl, and what the priority is of each item. For more complex sites, you can have a SiteMapIndex file in your website root, which has entries that point to any number of other individual sitemap files. So for example, you might have a messageboard...