Ryan McDonnell » SEO http://www.ryanmcdonnell.com Pursuing Web Application Zen Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:30:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Search engines agree on auto-discovering sitemap.xml http://www.ryanmcdonnell.com/search-engines-agree-on-auto-discovering-sitemapxml/ http://www.ryanmcdonnell.com/search-engines-agree-on-auto-discovering-sitemapxml/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:38:53 +0000 Ryan McDonnell http://www.ryanmcdonnell.com/search-engines-agree-on-auto-discovering-sitemapxml/ Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask all announced today that they will support the sitemap.xml format. Furthermore, you can now include a line in the robots.txt file that points the search engines to the URL of your sitemap. Now sitemaps will be auto-discovered by the engines and no longer require manual submission.

Within your robots.txt file, add the following line:

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml

I’ll post some results down the road when I get around to implementing this myself.

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