Since Google launched XML Sitemaps back in 2005, they’ve added specialized formats to enable site owners to submit content other than web pages. Until now, site owners have had to create separate ...

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 ...

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that having an XML Sitemap file is "a minimal baseline for any serious website." Basically, all serious websites should have an XML sitemap file part of it or it ...

Google's John Mueller said on Reddit that Google uses XML Sitemaps like an energy drink. John said "All sitemap files of a site are imported into a common, big mixing cup, lightly shaken, and then ...

Michael Nguyen of Social Patterns has been quick to the draw in constructing a script for WordPress which constructs a php sitemap of a WordPress blog for inclusion into the new Google Sitemaps ...

The inclusion of XML Sitemaps as a WordPress Core feature has been proposed by a group of Yoast and Google team members as well as other contributors. In addition to a basic XML Sitemap, the proposal ...

Developer Jeff Atwood has an inside look at the importance of using a sitemap.xml file to ensure that search engines are finding all of your website's content. Atwood shows how, prior to setting up a ...

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 ...

Google has announced it’s opened a ping server for bloggers to ping them directly when you create a new blog entry using the XML-RPC protocol. In order to ping Google directly you simply need to add ...

If you’re looking for a way to optimize your site for technical SEO and rank better, consider deleting your pages. I know, crazy, right? But hear me out. We all know Google can be slow to index ...