Brandon Petersen

The Sitemap Protocol allows us to inform search engines when a page has been changed and is ready for crawling. The Sitemap file is a dynamically generated XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently.

You can get a more complete description of Google Sitemaps here:
http://www.sitemaps.org/faq.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Sitemaps

Submit your SiteMap through the robots.txt file

Search engines can automatically discover the SiteMap file by adding the following line to the robots.txt file.

SITEMAP: http://www.brandonpetersen.com/sitemap.xml

Submit your SiteMap to Google

Go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Submit your SiteMap to Yahoo

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/

Submit Your SiteMap to MSN

http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=http://www.brandonpetersen.com/sitemap.xml

Submit your SiteMap to Ask.com

http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A//www.brandonpetersen.com/sitemap.xml

This entry was posted on Friday, April 27th, 2007 @ 2:54 pm on the category General.

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