http://www.xml-sitemaps-generator.com Create XML sitemaps for your website and get search engines to index faster Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:46:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What are XML Sitemaps It's a special sitemap document protocol to help search engines index websites. This protocol uses XML for describing its content. The full name is XML Sitemaps Protocol, but is commonly referred to as XML Sitemaps. The idea and format was conceived by Google, and was in ... http://www.xml-sitemaps-generator.com/xml-sitemap-guide-create-upload-submit-ping/ Search engines and robots.txt Since the birth of internet search engines, the robots.txt file has been how webmasters could let search engines like Google know what content should get crawled and indexed. However, as part of Google Sitemaps, later named XML Sitemaps Protocol, the usage was expanded with Sitemaps Autodiscovery. It ... http://www.xml-sitemaps-generator.com/submit-xml-sitemaps-robots-txt/ XML sitemaps protocol and pinging First appearing in Google sitemaps and later in XML Sitemaps Protocol, sitemap ping is a way to inform search engines that you have updated your XML sitemap files. Pinging is not required for search engines to discover changes in XML sitemaps, but it will speed the ... http://www.xml-sitemaps-generator.com/a1-sitemap-generator-and-xml-sitemaps-ping/ XML sitemaps FTP upload tool Having created your XML sitemap, you will need to upload the sitemap files to your website. You can either use a standard FTP upload program, or the built-in sitemaps FTP upload tool in A1 Sitemap Generator. After configuration, upload of all generated sitemap files including Google ... http://www.xml-sitemaps-generator.com/ftp-upload-xml-sitemaps-using-a1-sitemap-generator/ Priority Values in XML Sitemaps Explained XML sitemaps protocol was originally created by Google and called Google Sitemaps. Later other search engines such as Yahoo, Ask and MSN adopted the Google Sitemaps format, and Google Sitemaps got renamed into Sitemaps Protocol. Common for both is they define a <priority></priority> tag which ... http://www.xml-sitemaps-generator.com/xml-sitemaps-and-priority-values/ This tutorial will explain how to create XML sitemaps using A1 Sitemap Generator. We use default settings such as automated calculation of priority values. If you are interested in some of the advanced options or the command line interface for scheduling and automation, you can always check the help. Crawl entire ... http://www.xml-sitemaps-generator.com/create-xml-sitemaps-with-a1-sitemap-generator/