Google has got together with Yahoo and MSN to come up with a cohesive system that will allow all website owners to create one website map that will work on all 3 search engines.
Website maps are basically XML, TXT or RSS files that contain all the URLs that you would like the search engines to index. Website maps do not impact on your rankings within the search engines but they do tell them what pages you would like them to index.
For example, Com.Motion has a Google website map and the pages that Google has indexed can by found by copying the following into the Google browser and clicking search - site: www.com-motionuk.com
Google, Yahoo and MSN have come up with a unique website that explains all about website map creation and this can be found at the following location www.sitemaps.org .
It explains all you have to know about website map creation and submission and is not to be missed. Further information can be found at Web Pro News (video file) who has interviewed Vanessa Fox from Google on this hot topic.
Post date 08/12/2006
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