Adding an XML Sitemap to MSN

Discussion in 'Bing' started by Corey Bryant, Sep 9, 2007.

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    I read MSN Sitemap but
    While I have added a line to my robots.txt
    Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
    Code (markup):
    We were spammed by this site. I did take a chance and look at it because my business partner thought I had an XML sitemap (which I do).

    On that site though, it says
    Now it says it needs to be registered with MSN. I know about Yahoo Explorer and the Webmaster Tools for Google, but are they referring to the robots.txt possibly in this site? I don't know it if it the sitemapfile.net website or the mplw.com website - I am guessing he just buys a few domain names to spam users. But is what he alludes to the truth - do you need to be registered with MSN or is the robots.txt all there is to it?
     
    Corey Bryant, Sep 9, 2007 IP
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    snowbird Notable Member

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    I'm interested in this as well. Yahoo and Google are gobbling up my pages while MSN does nothing but hit the robots.txt file. Nothing I have is indexed in MSN, but I have hundreds of pages listed in Google and about 100 listed in Yahoo.

    I also added my Google sitemap location to my robots.txt file. It made no difference for MSN. However, I do have a sub domain which is listed in MSN. But why won't MSN take the TLD?

    My Robots.txt reads:

    User-agent: *
    Sitemap: http://www.exampledomain.com/sitemap.xml
     
    snowbird, Sep 9, 2007 IP