Google Makes It Simpler To Submit Sitemaps

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Google Makes It Simpler To Submit Sitemaps

December 19th     Published by: Mike Sachoff     Filed under: Search Engine Optimization

Google has announced that it has made it easier for webmasters to submit a Sitemap.


Sitemap submission will not require webmasters to say what kind of file type they are submitting because Google says it will determine that type of data.


The Google Webmaster Central Blog details the Sitemap files it supports:


XML Sitemap files for web pages - Use these files to submit all of your web pages (this is the preferred format for web pages). While not all search engines may support the Sitemap types listed below, the XML Sitemap for web pages is supported by all search engines of sitemaps.org.


RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 feeds for web pages - Many blogs create these automatically.
Text files with web page URLs - If you can’t automatically create one of the above formats, you can create a text file with your URLs in it.


XML Sitemap files for Video Search - Videos on your website can be indexed and made available for Google Video Search.


Media-RSS feeds for Video Search - mRSS feeds are used by various other systems, we can use these for Google Video Search as well.


XML Sitemap files for Google Code Search - If you make programming samples or code available to your users, you can submit these for Google Code Search.

XML Sitemap files for mobile web pages - Using this kind of format allows us to recognize content that has been optimized for mobile devices (please note that there was recently a small change in the format).


XML Sitemap files for geo-data - If you have geographic data on your website in the form of KML or GeoRSS files, please let us know about these files.


XML Sitemap files for News - News websites can submit their news content in this special Sitemap format (please note that you must first register with Google News before these files are processed).

  1. Italian Restaurant Says:   
    December 28th, 2008 at 8:30 am

    Wow thats good to hear . Thanks for the update ! I will check it out.

  2. Offshoring Newbie Says:   
    January 2nd, 2009 at 12:42 pm

    Just submitted mine, all that Google asks for is an XML type of Sitemap.

  3. Build website Says:   
    January 4th, 2009 at 12:52 am

    Good article.. thanks for sharing..

  4. Wedding Reception Centerpieces Says:   
    January 4th, 2009 at 11:54 am

    I like the XML Sitemaps. Google really made it easy to go for it!

  5. Rose @ Nature's Sunshine Blog Says:   
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:45 am

    Thank you for sharing. I’ll look into this useful info at once. Google is really cool to work with.

  6. Web Design Dubai Says:   
    January 11th, 2009 at 7:02 am

    Yes google is good for indexing inner pages of website. But yahoo also gives this service, accept txt url list.

  7. Ben | Ventrilo Servers Says:   
    January 16th, 2009 at 6:39 am

    Thanks for the valuable information I will be submitting my site map soon.Love to hear more latest techniques :)

  8. Web Design Consulting Says:   
    January 18th, 2009 at 9:40 pm

    Sitemap in XML is for the spider to eat and the HTML sitemap should also not take for granted which is intended for human. Nice post here, very comprehensive one in explaining the new feature of Google Webmaster.

  9. Web Design London Says:   
    August 25th, 2009 at 5:23 am

    It’s good explanation about Google site map. It really helps google boat to crawl and index inner pages of your website.

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