XML sitemaps just turned 18 in June, and in honor of its full-fledged introduction into adulthood, I’m breaking down how XML sitemaps work, how to build one, and why XML sitemaps offer a boatload of ...

Not to be confused with HTML sitemaps, which are designed to be viewed by humans, XML sitemaps are solely for search engines. Given that XML sitemaps are intended to assist Google, site owners may ...

When it comes to telling search engines about the content on a website, webmasters might be wondering if they should submit sitemaps or just setup RSS or Atom feeds. Google’s answer? Use both. In a ...

Fabrice Canel, Principal Program Manager at Bing, updated the Bing Webmaster Blog this week with six tips for sitemaps, including some advice specifically for large websites. If you don’t have a ...

There are many SEOs spilt on the topic of the value in submitting a Sitemap to Google. In my opinion, it is clear that if a site has very poor navigation and on-page SEO, submitting a Sitemap might be ...

In an encouraging act of collaboration, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft announced tonight that they will all begin using the same Sitemaps protocol to index sites around the web. Now based at Sitemaps.org ...

Great news from yesterday at SES. Danny has a great roundup describing that Search Engines Unite On Sitemaps Autodiscovery at Search Engine Land and I have some more details with my coverage of the ...

On Friday Google released Google Sitemaps - a service to allow Webmasters to automatically submit their own pages for indexing into Google's search engine. After a developer submits their site, Google ...