Not to be confused with HTML sitemaps, which are designed to be viewed by humans, XML sitemaps are solely for search engines. Given that XML sitemaps are intended to assist Google, site owners may ...

Confused about whether you need XML or image sitemaps and how important they are to Google? Gain a better understanding in this Ask An SEO column. As Google’s search results have increasingly become ...

In the early days of search engines, I wasn’t much of a believer in XML sitemaps. But over time, I began to see first hand how they can benefit websites. XML sitemaps serve as a way to communicate ...

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 ...

In the early days of when Google first introduced XML Sitemaps, Google also a collection of 3rd party sitemap generation solutions. That page now shows a notice that the top that reads "this Google ...

This XML sitemap is used by search engines which follow the XML sitemap standard. This file contains links to sub-sitemaps, follow them to see the actual sitemap ...

Microsoft Bing will soon rely a lot more on the date you specify in the lastmod field within your XML sitemap for crawling. Fabrice Canel, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Bing said that ...

Gary Illyes has recently been pretty active in the StackOverflow forums and just posted in a Stack Overflow thread that Google, and other search engines, mostly ignore the lastmod tag found within XML ...