Yahoo and Microsoft have agreed to adopt the Sitemap protocol introduced by Google for indexing web sites. The protocol is now housed at common place and explains the associated XML format. Google Sitemaps is a popular protocol already with plugins available for a lot of web site building tools, including Wordpress. To keep the door open for other search engines the protocol Sitemap 0.90 is available under Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License. These are one of the rare instances where organizations have come together and not egoistically tried to create their own proprietary protocols. Here is Techchrunch’s report. Danny Sullivan has the background information on this. A true, genuine and transparent effort that will reduce a lot of effort and lot of information overload for the user.
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November 18th, 2006 at 11:26 am
plz also tell something about actually implementing this for my blog http://blog2good.blogspot.com
do i have to include all my blog posts manually and what about other search engines other than yahoo google and msn.
plz also write about these things
and yours is a nice blog.
happy blogging
akshay
November 18th, 2006 at 11:53 pm
Akshay, Blogspot.com uses the tool Blogger. There is a hack to generate Google Sitemaps if you self-host your blog with Blogger. There is a generic solution for Google Sitemap creation using this Python tool. In short, I am not aware of any direct solution for blogspot.com, and it is quite possible that is handled internally by Google.
November 26th, 2006 at 11:25 am
http://www.hongxiaowan.com
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.
Please visit: http://www.sitebases.org