Search Indexing Coverage

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

I just read Jeff Atwood’s post on Coding Horror about the importance of Sitemaps. I’m always eager to hear about people’s experiences since I spent so much time on XML Sitemaps and getting sitemaps.org launched while I was at Google. Sitemaps, of course, are supported by Google, Yahoo, and Live Search. All you have to do is reference the Sitemap location in your robots.txt file and all the engines will pick it up.

Atwood noted that he uses Google to search for his own stuff, which makes it that much more frustrating when some of the content isn’t indexed. (Not to mention of course, the lost visitor opportunities.) Once he created an XML Sitemap, Google started finding and indexing more of his pages.

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