Microsoft Running Behind On Sitemaps Protocol?
November 27th, 2006 | 2,807 Views RSS Feed
As we reported last week, Google, Yahoo! and MSN have come together to follow an uniform Sitemaps protocol.
However, the confusion that has lately prevailed is where to submit the sitemaps file for MSN. There is no parallel to Google Sitamps or Yahoo! Site Explorer for MSN so far. Last week Ken Moss, General Manager, Live Search had said that:
We are 100% behind this protocol - this kind of collaboration will help improve the search experience for all of our customers, and we are working hard to release full support in 2007. We are starting to alpha test with internal partners such as MSDN and Microsoft Support now.
Is that what Microsoft has in mind: 2007?
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November 27th, 2006 at 7:30 am
January 11th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
[…] Properly notifying the major search engines of the various pages on your site can further improve the organic search engine traffic to your site. A common XML standard has been adopted by Google, Yahoo!, and MSN that makes mapping your site and getting the word out quick and convenient. There are a number of ways to build your XML sitemap, the most tedious of which is by hand. Mac users can use the Rage Google Sitemap Automator, which can not only generate the file for you just by providing the URL to your site, but it can even upload the file to your server and ping Google to let them know where the file is. Notifying Yahoo! has to be done manually via their Site Explorer tool, but the file doesn't need to change at all. MSN is running behind trying to get a submission site set up, so although they are 100% behind the sitemap protocol, there is no means to submit your file. […]