Google, Yahoo! & MSN united (really !)

The three majors search engines announced they will support the Sitemap protocol created by Google.

The protocol is upgraded in version 0.90 and got a dedicated web site : sitemaps.org

Officials announces :

Google
MSN
Yahoo!

 

This is pretty big news to the webmaster world!

 

Well, I've been thinking so when posting, but you are the first one to react, so maybe we are both wrong

 

No, it's only because most people are just waking up over here, they haven't had time to read it yet or let it register

 

Thanks for the news

 

and where do i submit the sitemaps to yahoo?

 

Here :

Yahoo site explorer

 

wew.... so we only have to submit out sitemaps to sitemaps.org and get crawled by that three SE?

btw, I just tried Yahoo site explorer, I see no option to submit sitemaps, but I see "Add Feed". Is this the same? And in what format should I submit?

 

You can submit Sitemaps to Yahoo! Search through Site Explorer, just like you could add RSS feeds up to now. Just add the site to which the feed belongs, to your list of sites, and then add the feed for that site. We will retrieve the sitemap and use the data you provide us.

Source: http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000380.html

 

This news isn't just big it's great...

 

Yes that's great news. This will reduce a lot of additional work regarding sitemaps. In future as well we should expect these three major SE to work collectively. The only concern is if they adopt a similar policy for Black hat SEO as well then what?

 

good news indeed!

 

This is fantastic!

 

This is great news.
So no longer to keep different sitemaps format now

 

Thanks for sharing. Would this mean I have to modify my Google SiteMap as the existing one uses:

<urlset
xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84
http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84/sitemap.xsd">

Anyone???

 

thanks for the news, can you tell me where can i ping yahoo and msn for the sitemap, i am using xml sitemaps for wordpress and it pings to google automatically

 

Great news!

So will there be a central repositry for sitemaps or will it still be a submit to all 3?

 

Thats huge. Its jUst that i cant imagine what will happens next if three major SE's merged as one.

 

the best and the better is google only no other is better

 

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com has just updated their free online generator and unlimited script to support the new 0.90 sitemaps protocol.