Major search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask.com will now check your robots.txt file for a link to a sitemaps file, then get the file from that location. This is a big plus because all the major search engines regularly check robots.txt files as part of their ordinary crawling. To add the location, just put a line like this anywhere in your robots.txt file: Sitemap: LOCATION-OF-SITEMAPS-FILE Replace the LOCATION-OF-SITEMAPS-FILE with the actual location. For example, if www.jumphigherglobal.com has a sitemap file called sitemap.xml in top level, the reference would be like this: Sitemap: http://www.jumphigherglobal.com/sitemap.xml Have more than one sitemaps file? Ideally, you'd create a special "sitemaps index" file that links to all of them, then put a link to the sitemaps index file in your robots.txt file. If that sounds like too much work, you can have more than one sitemaps URL listed in the robots.txt file.
thanks for the info . there are two similar threads on http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=68411 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=296143
So, I do not need to submit my sitemap file to Google, and just use the robot.txt method?????? please comment thanks
Yeah absolutely, there is no need to submit your sitemap file to Google now. Google will automatically discover it using ur robots.txt