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MSN sitemap supported via robots.txt

Discussion in 'Bing' started by mann3r, Apr 11, 2007.

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    mann3r, Apr 11, 2007 IP
  2. Dinvest

    Dinvest Peon

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    Will do, thank you.
     
    Dinvest, May 6, 2007 IP
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    guia Banned

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    Thanks for the info and I will try that..

    The presence of a robots.txt file lately has been seen to be highly important to the MSN robot’s crawls, and MSN has been known to completely disregard sites that don’t incorporate the robots.txt. Whether this is part of the new neural net or simply a filter, we can’t be certain.
     
    guia, May 7, 2007 IP
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    Great hopefully it will work and not destroy my sites rankings, you can never tell with these new Microsoft additions.
     
    netstorm, May 7, 2007 IP
  5. imnajam

    imnajam Well-Known Member

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    Yeah, The sitemap protocal / sitemap autodiscovery is now a standard, yahoo, google, msn and I guess AOL too has adopted it.
     
    imnajam, May 7, 2007 IP
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    So it needs a line in robots.txt to tell it to look for mysite.com/sitemap.xml? Couldn't it just skip a step and look for sitemap.xml itself?
     
    heinlein99, May 7, 2007 IP
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    thanks for the info. Will try out.
     
    buyallgifts, May 7, 2007 IP
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    as you know in collaboration of all search engine to utilize robots.txt for auto discovery of your sitemap, MSN though support this but they are not yet implementing it, maybe end of this year according to them
     
    mann3r, May 8, 2007 IP
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    could somone tell me what is the right syntext for the robot file for msn to have it crawl the site map? Thanks
     
    blkg35, May 13, 2007 IP
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    trichnosis Prominent Member

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    blgg35,

    it's the same with sitemap with google. you can use the same syntext with it.

    when you add

    Sitemap:http://www.sitename.com/sitemap.xml

    msn and the other sites will find your sitemap
     
    trichnosis, May 13, 2007 IP