It is hard for search engines to grasp the tens of millions posts at WordPress.com, so we’re giving them a hand.
I’ve always wished to start the week with a new SEO feature. That’s why we have an early Monday surprise for you — XML Sitemaps for all WordPress.com blogs.
From the Sitemaps.org website:
Sitemaps are an easy [...]
Site maps have many benefits. They provide comfortable navigation and greater visibility in search engines. Whenever you make any changes in your site, it is a way of immediately informing the search engines. When you change pages of your website, search engines do not index it soon but with the use of site maps it is certain that changes in web pages gets indexed at a faster pace. Creation of it
Site maps have many benefits. They provide comfortable navigation and greater visibility in search engines. Whenever you make any changes in your site, it is a way of immediately informing the search engines. When you change pages of your website, search engines do not index it soon but with the use of site maps it is certain that changes in web pages gets indexed at a faster pace. Creation of it
Sitemap generator programs can be downloaded from various sources on the Internet. Generator sitemap programs have two fundamental purposes. Generator sitemap programs help surfers navigate a site effectively. At the same time, a generator sitemap program encourages search engine spiders. Google offers one of the most popular generator sitemap programs ever to hit the Internet.
The [...]
We use XML Sitemaps for providing information to Google about our site. In which we provide a list of all pages of our website. By creating a XML Sitemaps Google crawl easily all the pages of that site in this way it helps Google to find all the pages in a site. For more information click here.
Till a year ago, the only way you could get your site indexed on Google is by waiting for Googlebot (the software program or spider that Google uses to crawl the Web) to visit your site.
While Googlebot does a fairly comprehensive job of covering the Web, webmasters needed more control over how their site was [...]
ASP.NET Futures introduced support for search engine sitemaps. This is content detection protocol introduced originally by Google and later accepted also by Microsoft and Yahoo! ASP.NET makes sitemaps generating easy for us and as a bonus their model is perfect for more complex web applications like e-commerce and e-services sites. Let's see now what we can do. Couple of word about search sitemap
Este post va dedicado a Julian, quien tuvo problemas con Google Herramientas para Webmasters, y yo también lo tuve.El inconveniente es el siguiente, tengo más de 50 post y Google Sitemaps solo me indexa 22 páginas(Ver Foto).La solución que nos da Google es la de enviar las nuevas direcciones manualmente, y hasta el dia de hoy es la única solución que encontre, ya que Google hace lo mismo con todas las webs. Capaz que con el tiempo sigue indexando, pero si es así tarda demasiado.Para ello, debemos entrar a Google: Aregue/quite su URL. Allí ponemos las direcciones que no están indexadas.Es la solución que propone Google. Si alguno sabe de otra que sea mejor y más práctica, que avise que será posteada con los debidos créditos.Espero haberte sido útil. Si no te molesta, podría
La herramienta, aunque gratuita, requiere de una sencilla y rápida registración.La dirección de correo debe ser válida, ya que la aplicación envía un enlace donde poder descargar el archivo, una vez generado.enlace: relacionadas:Crear un sitemap de mi sitioSitemap hasta 1000 URLComo agregar un sitemap en BloggerCreación de Sitemaps
Google Sitemaps Toolbox (GSToolbox) is a toolbox designed for webmaster to generate, manage and view Google sitemaps files. It is composed of Google Sitemaps Stylesheet (GSStylesheet) and Google Sitemaps Director (GSDirector).
Adding Google sitemap to your blog is an easy way to add your blog URL to Google index and get your blog crawled. With Google sitemap, you can get better crawl coverage and search results to help people find more of your web pages. You also get detailed reports about how Google directs traffic to your blog and how Googlebot sees your pages. (Note: there is some controversy over the usefulness of this Google sitemap. with Blogger, you have no access to Blogger's servers and thus have no chance to upload a real sitemap. Google came up with a way for bloggers using Google Blogger to add a kind of sitemap to their blog by making use of the feed. Note this this is in no way making a real sitemap, but I supposed it is still better than nothing. This would be especially true if you set you feed t
I motori di ricerca sono un ottimo punto di ingresso al nostro blog, attraverso loro tutti noi riusciamo oggi a trovare con poca fatica le informazioni che cerchiamo. Prima di aprire questo blog, era mia convinzione che tutto il lavoro fosse sulle spalle dei motori di ricerca, i quali col i loro complicatissimo algoritmi [...]
Improve your Search Engine Position with Sitemaps
A sitemap is a little-known secret to enhancing your Web site’s position in the search engine listings. No, it’s not a killer secret that will draw in thousands of new visitors overnight, but it is an important addition to your toolset, and not hard to implement.
The term “sitemap” can [...]
This one is a quick release just like the previous one that fixes just one thing.
All previous versions had this problem that the urls were not urlencoded so those urls that contained special characters like those with an accent or diacritics were invalid and of course google would show an error on those sitemaps.
Version 0.9 [...]
This one is a quick release just like the previous one that fixes just one thing.
All previous versions had this problem that the urls were not urlencoded so those urls that contained special characters like those with an accent or diacritics were invalid and of course google would show an error on those sitemaps.
Version 0.9 [...]
Nada, simplemente avisarles que ya han actualizado el plugin de referencia para hacerlo compatible con la nueva versión de Wordpress.
Parece que Alex se encontró con un pequeño problema que le ocasionaba un consumo excesivo de memoria y problemas con los procesos php, por lo que tuvo que desactivar dicho plugin.
Bájate la nueva versión del Google [...]
A sitemap is a little-known secret to enhancing your Web site’s position in the search engine listings. No, it’s not a killer secret that will draw in thousands of new visitors overnight, but it is an important addition to your toolset, and not hard to implement. This article will tell you why you [...]
Наконец-таки мой блог был проиндексирован.Самое стремное,что добавив карту блога,сам блог был проиндексирован через 10 минут))Вот инструкция для быстрого индексирования гуглом вашего блога:1)Сначала надо подготовить карту блога,для этого необходимо использовать фид и из блогаhttp://ваш_блог.blogspot.com/atom.xmlhttp://ваш_блог.blogspot.com/rss.xml2)Вырубаем редирект с FeedBurner,если он конечно есть(проверить можно тут "Настройки > Канал Сайта > URL переадресации к
It seems my last version of the Xml Sitemaps module for pligg didn't really fixed the date format problem with the generated sitemaps.
Back when this module was created google had less strict rules about the date format in the lastmod section. My module generated a date and time string with this format YYYY-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS and it [...]
Google Sitemaps enables Webmasters to Directly Alert Google to Changes and Additions on a Website and that’s just one of 7 Benefits.
Telling search engines about new pages or new websites used to be what the submission process was all about. But major search engines stopped using that process a long time ago.
Google has for a [...]
ASP.NET-i tulevikuplaanidesse kuulub üks tore asi - tugi otsimootorite sitemap'ide genereerimiseks. Algatus on päris kõva, sest arvestatud on ka sellega, et koduka küljes võib olla igasugu spetsiifilisi jubinaid nagu näiteks veebipood ja tootekataloogid ning miks mitte muud vidinad, millega kaasnevad dünaamilised andmed.
Käsitsi on sitemap'ide uuendamine suhteliselt vastik tegevus, kui me tegeleme näiteks mahuka [...]
The term "sitemap" can refer to two different things. Many large, complex Web sites provide a visual sitemap that visitors can use for quick navigation, if they already know roughly where they want to go. If your site is large or complex, you should provide one of these sitemaps for your visitors. But this article is about the other kind of sitemap: The kind that is made for the search engines, like Google, to use in indexing your site. There are several forms that these sitemaps can take, but we'll get to that a little later. First of all, let's consider why you even need a sitemap. Google and the other search engines will index your site even if you don't have a sitemap. However, there are four main advantages to having a sitemap: 1. If your site uses non-HTML links, such as Macrome
Sitemaps, which make the website navigation easier, can be created using CSS with the "tree hierarchy".
CSS Sitemap uses list tags for the hierarch and formats the user interface nicely.
For the last touch, CSS Sitemap lets collapsing the sitemap using a jQuery function.
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While your homepage will give visitors the basics and general idea of your website, what if visitors want to know exactly what information is present, and where it can be found? A sitemap is the solution to this conundrum. Like a table of contents, a sitemap may be quickly scanned to see what information the [...]
Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how...
For submitting your site on google, after your domain submitted through www.google.com/addurl.html, create sitemaps.xml.How to :-Open your notepad.exe and copy from below :-Change the word "4moneyclicks.blogspot.com" with "www.yourdomain.com", then-Save it with name "sitemaps.xml " <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xmlns=""><url><loc></loc><lastmod>2008-01-01</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq><priority>0.8<priority></priority></priority></url></span>Upload this file to server in this root directory.[+/-] show/hide this post
Mientras terminaba de configurar Guia Rancagua y de agregarle más cosillas para aumentar el indexado de los motores de búsqueda, me nacio la necesidad de un “spider” que me generase un sitemap de forma automática para enviar a Google Webmasters.
Google provee un script programado en Python y lamentablemente nisiquiera me di el tiempo de [...]
Graywolf has an interesting post about using sitemaps for competitive intelligence:
…people who are using automated solutions like popularity contest are telling you their most highly trafficked pages. Other people who are generating Sitemap XML files in a more manual fashion, are telling you the pages they want to rank. Chances are good the pages they want to rank for are the "money pages".
It’s an interesting idea. If you are worried about someone doing this to your sites, you could try to hide your sitemaps by giving them unpredictable names and only using the ping technique to tell search engines where the sitemap index is located.
If you want to find your competitors’ sitemaps you could use search engine queries like this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agoogle.com+filetype%3Axml
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agoogle.com+inurl%3Asitemap
If you want to make sure that search engines can’t index your sitemap files you might be able to block
A lot of web pages will find an SEO sitemap useful in improving their performance. SEO stands for "Search Engine Optimization", the process that aims to create or revise Internet sites so that it can be better found by search engines. The objective of SEO campaigns is to have websites appear in the top listing or first results page of search engines.
Internet search engines, such as Google and Yahoo, maintain a very large database of Web pages and available files. To do this, they devise a program called a web crawler, or spider. This software automatically and continuously surfs and hunts content in the Web. Pages that the spider finds are retrieved and indexed according to text content, giving more weight to titles and paragraph headers. Spiders never stop navigating the web from page to page, to index the relevant content of the Internet. Besides looking at the text of titles and headers, some programs are able to identify default tags and keep a library of these p
I am highly skeptical about the usefulness of XML sitemaps.
My suspicion about sitemaps is that they were primarily created by Google to debug Googlebot. When webmasters submit a sitemap, they tell Google what pages are supposed to be on the site. Google’s engineers can compare that data with the data from Googlebot crawls. Then Google can use that data to improve Googlebot. The Webmaster Tools are the carrot on the stick to get you to add a sitemap (but you don’t need the sitemap to get the carrot).
You can put a totally incorrect XML sitemap on a Web site and Google will not start de-indexing your site or lowering your rankings.
I just found a video where Vanessa Fox talks about sitemaps:
“It’s really not about the ranking; it’s more about crawling… Sitemaps doesn’t impact your ranking at all.
The only way it impacts ranking is that in it helps in that very first obstacle of learning about all your pages because if we don’t about th
A lot of web pages will find an SEO sitemap useful in improving their performance. SEO stands for “Search Engine Optimization”, the process that aims to create or revise Internet sites so that it can be better found by search engines. The objective of SEO campaigns is to have websites appear in the top listing [...]
Bloggers know the importance of XML sitemaps very well. XML sitemaps are the key to faster search engine indexing and are the ultimate language of communication between you and search engine spiders. Google Webmaster Central is the official webmaster platform provided by Google and you can use it to add your blog or site XML sitemap to Google.
This will help Google to recognize your site pages fast and soon enough you will start receiving Google search engine traffic.
However until now, Live Search did not have any such tool which could be used to communicate between Live search engine and webmasters but with the launch of Live Search Webmaster Center you can easily submit your XML sitemap to Live Search and ensure that Live Search will send you the maximum search engine traffic along with Google.
Just visit http://webmaster.live.com/ and sign up if you don’t have a Windows Live ID. If you do then simply login and add your blog XML sitemap using the easy instructions. Live Searc
The definitive guide to how to use Google Sitemaps, from the Google Conversion University.
This is the 'manual' way to do this of course. Those of us using dynamic websites have to be a bit more clever, although automatic sitemap generators help. In Joomla! I use Joomap...
Anyway a great article to read to get to understand the importance of Sitemaps within Google!
Stuart
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A lot of web pages will find an SEO sitemap useful in improving their performance. SEO stands for “Search Engine Optimization”, the process that aims to create or revise Internet sites so that it can be better found by search engines. The objective of SEO campaigns is to have websites appear in the top listing or first results page of search engines.Internet search engines, such as Google and A9, maintain a very large database of Web pages and available files. To do this, they devise a program called a web crawler, or spider. This software automatically and continuously surfs and hunts content in the Web. Pages that the spider finds are retrieved and indexed according to text content, giving more weight to titles and paragraph headers. Spiders never stop navigating the web from page to page, to index the relevant content of the Internet. Besides looking at the text of titles and headers, some programs are able to identify default tags and keep a library of these page keyword
I created a module that generates XML Sitemaps for Pligg ( the well known open source cms used for creating sites similar to digg.com ).
The module generates a sitemap index and sitemaps with all the stories in the database dynamically so nothing is stored on disk and you don’t have to set a cron job to generate it.
The sitemaps are updated automatically when a new story is submitted. Because of the structure of the sitemap index and because it contains “lastmod” info, the search engines should only download the latest entries in the index so you shouldn’t worry about the module putting too much load on your system.
There is also a “ping” function that will announce google, yahoo and ask.com every time a new story is submitted so that they know they have to download the sitemap. The ping function required a little patching to pligg source code to add some hooks ( only if you use 9.6, 9.7 should already have those hooks ). Here is the diff file i
First you’ll need to get a plugin called “Google Sitemap Generator“ . It’s free and easy to install, just like any plugin. After installing it, remember to goto “Options” and then “Sitemap”. Fill out any settings and hit “Rebuild Sitemap”. You might have to upload a blank sitemap.xml or sitemap.xml.gz file, and CHMOD it so the script can save the file.Next you’ll need to login to your Google Sitemaps account. If you don’t have one, you can create one free. Once inside enter the URL to your website, then click the Sitemaps tab and click add a sitemap. Then enter the URL to your “General sitemap” (usually yoursite.com/sitemap.xml).That’s all it is to it. Then Google will periodically download your sitemap file, and index any new or changed pages. What’s great
Ask.com has implemented pinging service to support for the Sitemaps protocol autodiscovery that they left behind in April.
Barry, on SEL checked further and found the details on how to ping Ask.com is its Webmaster Help documents. In addition, try this link you can see how an example pinging attempt looks.
How does it work? From Ask's help files:
Once you have prepared the sitemap, add the sitemap auto-discovery directive to robots.txt as follows:
SITEMAP: http://www.the URL of your sitemap here.xml
The sitemap location should be the full sitemap URL. Alternatively, you can also submit your sitemap through the ping URL:
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A//www.the URL of your sitemap here.xml
Please note that sitemap submissions do not guarantee the indexing of URLs. To learn more about the protocol, please visit the Sitemaps web site at http://www.sitemaps.org.
Source:? SEL Blog
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What has the Sitemaps team been up to since we announced sitemaps.org? We've been busy trying to get Sitemaps adopted by everyone and to make the submission process as easy and automated as possible. To that end, we have three new announcements to share with you.First, we're making the sitemaps.org site available in 18 languages! We know that our users are located all around the world and we want to make it easy for you to learn about Sitemaps, no matter what language you speak. Here is a link to the Sitemap protocol in Japanese and the FAQ in German.Second, it's now easier for you to tell us where your Sitemaps live. We wondered if we could make it so easy that you wouldn't even have to tell us and every other search engine that supports Sitemaps. But how? Well, every website can have a robots.txt file in a standard location, so we decided to let you tell us about your Sitemap in the robots.txt file. All you have to do is add a line likeSitemap: http://www.mysite.co
Yahoo SiteMaps Plugin çok kolaykurulabilecek bir eklenti gerekli kodu headerınıza yerleştirin ve Gerekli olan abşka bir şeyde Yahoo hesabınız. Evet birde yahoo hesabınızın olması gerekli
Download: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomx/
Sitemaps 프로토콜을 잘 지원하기 위해서 Google, Yahoo!, 마이크로소프트가 작년 11월에 정식으로 동맹을 맺어서 sitemaps.org 사이트를 내놓았다. 사이트의 Sitemaps를 통해서 관리자(블로거)들이 검색엔진에 자기의 사이트에 어떤 컨텐츠가 있는지를 더 잘 알려줄 수 있게 되고 이렇게 되면 검색엔진이 더 빠르게 분석해서 사이트의 컨텐츠를 수록할 수 있게 된다. 따라서 검색엔진이 글을 수록하는 주기를 줄일 수 있다. 만약 이 글을 읽는 분들중 Google의 웹마스터에 등록을 했다면 여러분들은 자기 사이트의 Sitemaps 파일을 제출한 다음 확인을 거치면 된다. 하지만 지금 Google, Yahoo!, 마이크로소프트 Live Search 및 ASK 4대 검색엔진이 사이트의 관리자들에게 더 많은 편리를 제공해주려고 한다. 즉, Sitemaps 자동발견기능을 정식으로 지원한다. 따라서 지금부터 사용자는
This is an excellent new step in the world of SEO. Google, MSN and Yahoo! have teamed up to provide a uniform protocol for submission of sitemaps to all three search engines.
Webmasters who provide an XML Sitemap can now just include reference to it in their robots.txt file as follows:
Sitemap: http://www.sitename.com/sitemap.xml
The above line can be [...]
Creating sitemaps for your site is a very important part of ensuring that the search engines can spider your site easily and know the most about its pages. You can view ProductCritic's sitemap at http://www.productcritic.com/sitemap.xmlAt ProductCritic, we mostly care about Google and Yahoo! since these two sites combine for more than 80% of the search traffic to the site. If you have not done so already, you should set up your sites at both Google Webmaster Tools and Yahoo! Site Explorer:http://www.google.com/webmasters/toolshttp://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.comOnce you've set up your sites and verified that you own them (I've found that the easiest way to do this is to upload their generated html file to your site vs using a meta-tag), it's time to create and upload a sitemap.When we first launched the main site, we tried some free sitemap generators (just do a search at Google and you'll find a ton of them). The free online one that we found was the best was XML-Sitemaps.com. St
"Sitemaps enhances the current model of Web crawling by allowing webmasters to list all their Web pages to improve comprehensiveness, notify search engines of changes or new pages to help freshness,...
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Last week, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft agreed to support the Sitemap 0.9 protocol. How can this new standard help you to improve the ranking of your web site in search engines?
What are sitemaps and what is the Sitemaps protocol?
Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that [...]
This is important news for all webmasters, which can save you time and make your life simpler.
"Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have agreed to support the Sitemap 0.9 protocol. How can this new standard help you to improve the ranking of your web site in search engines? What are sitemaps and what is the Sitemaps protocol?
Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages
While your homepage will give visitors the basics and general idea of your website, what if visitors want to know exactly what information is present, and where it can be found? A sitemap is the solution to this conundrum. Like a table of contents, a sitemap may be quickly scanned to see what information the [...]
