Search Engines agree to support standard sitemap protocol
Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so search engine can more intellegently crawl the site. Sitemaps helps speed up the discovery of your pages.
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo agreed to support the same sitemap protocol. Anyone using Google Sitemap do not need to make any changes, Yahoo and Microsoft will index those sitemaps.
If you maintain a small site with static content, you can easily hand code the Sitemap by following the protocol.
Bloggers who are using WordPress can use the XML Sitemap generator plugin for Wordpress, which will automatically generate a sitemap for homepage, posts, static pages, categories and archive pages.
Movable Type users can create a Index Template and copy the following code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url>
<loc><$MTBlogURL encode_xml="1"$></loc>
<priority>1.0</priority>
</url>
<MTEntries lastn="9999">
<url>
<loc><$MTEntryPermalink encode_xml="1"$></loc>
<lastmod><$MTEntryModifiedDate utc="1" format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"$></lastmod>
</url>
</MTEntries>
</urlset>
Save the file to something easy to rememember, save and rebuild it.
You can now submit your Sitemap XML file to Google Webmasters, MSN LiveSearch, and Yahoo Site Explorer.
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1. Hong Xiaowan 30 Nov 2006
Introduce a different protocol for the webmasters. Any of your openion welcome. Thanks.
Sitebases, the next protocol after Sitemaps It can save the time and press for the search engine, also for the websites. It can bring new search engine that named Search Engine 2.0 . Using Sitebases protocol, will save 95% bandwidth above. It is another sample for long tail theory. In this protocol, I suggested that all search engine can share their Big Sitebases each other, so the webmaster just need to submit their Sitebases to one Search Engine. And I suggested that all search engines can open their search API for free and unlimited using.
http://www.sitebases.org/protocol
2. inşaat 21 Apr 2007
there are so much standart for sitemap protocols, webmasters upgrade their system so much. i hope there is only one protocol for this.