MSN & Yahoo Now Support Sitemaps
Written by Jeremy Luebke on November 16, 2006 – 11:00 am -Microsoft and Yahoo have announced they are joining Google in their support for the XML sitemaps protocol. All three engines will be upgrading to version 0.90.
I don’t personally use Google sitemaps often. I prefer to create a website that search engines love and let Google find the pages on their own. My method is a great way to determine whether a sites has been properly structured by watching how it is indexed by Google and others.
Yahoo is on the same level as Google and has no problem indexing all of my pages when a site is designed properly.
MSN Live Search on the other hand is horrible. This may be a godsend for people wanting to be completely indexed by MSN. It will be interesting to see if MSN actually indexes every page included in a sitemap or if they ignore half of them like they currently do when indexing a website.
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November 21st, 2006 at 4:42 pm
I also didn’t use Google Sitemaps as often as I probably should have. Anyway, it’s good to see all three working together on something…
November 21st, 2006 at 4:47 pm
I’m sure that they will find someway to make one not compatible with the other. Or should I say I’m sure MSN wil.