History of Sitemap, Sitemap Format
History of Sitemap, Importance of Sitemap, Sitemap Format, Sitemap Submission Search Engines
Sitemaps protocol gives a information to search engines about URLs that are available for crawling. A Sitemap is a format of XML file and save as .xml. Sitemap file contain the list of URLs for a website. Sitemap allows webmasters to include information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site.
History of Sitemap:
Sitemaps protocol gives a information to search engines about URLs that are available for crawling. A Sitemap is a format of XML file and save as .xml. Sitemap file contain the list of URLs for a website. Sitemap allows webmasters to include information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site.
History of Sitemap:
- Google first introduced Sitemaps 0.84 in June 2005 so any one can publish lists of urls.
- Google, MSN and Yahoo announced joint support for the Sitemaps protocol in November 2006. The schema version was changed to "Sitemap 0.90", but no other changes were made.
- In April 2007 - Ask.com and IBM announced support for Sitemaps. Also, Google, Yahoo, MS announced auto-discovery for sitemaps through robots.txt.
Sitemap Format:
The Sitemap Protocol format consists of XML tags. The file itself must be UTF-8 encoded.
Sample
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">
<url>
<loc> http://online-seo-information.blogspot.com/</loc>
<lastmod>2006-11-18</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
</urlset>
The following table lists the Sitemap submission URLs for several major search engines:
The Sitemap Protocol format consists of XML tags. The file itself must be UTF-8 encoded.
Sample
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">
<url>
<loc> http://online-seo-information.blogspot.com/</loc>
<lastmod>2006-11-18</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
</urlset>
The following table lists the Sitemap submission URLs for several major search engines:
| Search engine | Submission URL | Help page |
|---|---|---|
| http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap= | How do Iresubmit my Sitemap once it has changed? | |
| Yahoo! |
| Does Yahoo! support Sitemaps? |
| Ask.com | http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap= | Q: Does Ask.com support sitemaps? |
| Live Search | http://webmaster.live.com/ping.aspx?siteMap= | Webmaster Tools(beta) |
| Yandex | — | Sitemaps files |
Sitemap limits:
Sitemap files have a limit of 50,000 URLs and 10 megabytes per sitemap. Sitemaps can be compressed using gzip format. Multiple sitemap files are supported, with a Sitemap index file serving as an entry point for a total of 1000 sitemaps
Sitemap files have a limit of 50,000 URLs and 10 megabytes per sitemap. Sitemaps can be compressed using gzip format. Multiple sitemap files are supported, with a Sitemap index file serving as an entry point for a total of 1000 sitemaps
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