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Sitemap Tips

Sitemap is a special formatted XML file containing URLs of a web site, so search engine robots can index these URLs easily without the effort of crawling. Sitemap was invented by Google, and later got embraced by Yahoo! and Microsoft, too.

Check http://www.sitemap.org for the specifications.

Ping Search Engines

Ping google:


http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping? <-- no line break
sitemap=http%3a%2f%2fwww.idogicat.com%2fsitemap.xml