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Google To Auto-Sort Sitemap Formats

By Jason Lee Miller - Thu, 12/18/2008 - 16:29
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Send’em all, let Google sort’em out

Submitting sitemaps to Google has been simplified, the company announced this morning. Webmasters will no longer have to specify which type of sitemap they are submitting. Google will determine the filetype for them.

Google still prefers webmasters use Google Webmaster Tools for submission, though, but they also accept files listed in the robots.txt file, or submitted via the HTTP ping method.

The XML sitemap file format can be used for all web pages, which is also supported by all search engine. If a webmaster doesn’t trust Google to sift through their file types, control freaks can bask in their own specificity via other Google-supported file formats:

RSS and Atom 1.0 feeds

Text files with URLs

XML sitemap files for video search, indexed in Google Video

Media-RSS feeds for video search

XML sitemap files for Google Code Search, indexed in Google Code Search

XML sitemap files for mobile web pages

XML sitemap files for geo-data, for geographic data in KML or GeoRSS format

XML sitemap for News, a special format for those registered with Google News
 

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About the author:
Jason Lee Miller is a WebProNews editor and writer covering business and technology.

8 Comments

By marius (WPN reader) - Sun, 12/28/2008 - 13:58

Google is always trying to

Google is always trying to fix sitemap error, hope they fix it soon

By Sam Nichols (WPN reader) - Mon, 12/22/2008 - 11:59

making things simple should

making things simple should be the best, its time google is trying to keep things simple so it can be more user friendly

By Paul K (WPN reader) - Sun, 12/21/2008 - 13:29

Google Sitemaps

Being a newbie--I am glad Google simplified SOMETHING! Thanks for the info---looking forward to more!

By David (WPN reader) - Sun, 12/21/2008 - 11:08

Google Sitemap and .aspx

Google still can't (or won't) handle the sitemap.aspx file for some reason. I wonder why?

By Diamonds (WPN reader) - Sun, 12/21/2008 - 12:33

I'm sure dynamic sitemaps

I'm sure dynamic sitemaps are next on their list.

By Guest (WPN reader) - Sun, 12/21/2008 - 12:21

sitemap.aspx

Yes they do handle this, submitting an xml sitemap from asp.net (sitemap.aspx) works great.

All you have to do is make sure that there are no spaces or returns before the xml starts.

By www.medicultau.com (WPN reader) - Fri, 12/19/2008 - 08:46

most used

XML sitemap will be also one of the most used in the future.

By seo company (WPN reader) - Thu, 12/18/2008 - 17:42

simpler is better :-)

Good to hear this. Not that it was such a big deal to begin with but for the newbies out there this might help them somewhat.

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