The major search engines have announced an update to the sitemaps.org protocol which enables site owners to store their XML Sitemap files in any location — even on a different domain than the one ...

Google's John Mueller recommended that when it comes to your Google News sitemap file, try to use one sitemap file. John said it will result in Google being able to "crawl it faster" and Google does ...

Google's John Mueller answered a question I never heard before around dynamically generated sitemap files, generating new file names for these sitemap files every single day. In short, their CMS will ...

Mickey Kataria has posted on the Google Webmaster Central blog that if you can verify ownership of multiple sites, you can consolidate the Sitemap files for those sites and either combine the URLs ...

Sitemaps are a powerful tool for SEO pros and webmasters. They help Google and other search engines navigate through a website and find new pages and content. It’s not guaranteed that search engines ...

WordPress, the content management system running a third of today's internet sites, is getting built-in support for XML sitemaps. Also: Best web hosting services The feature will go live in WordPress ...

Developer Jeff Atwood has an inside look at the importance of using a sitemap.xml file to ensure that search engines are finding all of your website's content. Atwood shows how, prior to setting up a ...

In a joint announcement between Google and Bing, the companies have stated they are increasing the limit of sitemap file sizes from the standard 10 MB to 50 MB. Most sitemaps never reach the 10 MB ...