Do search engines like Yahoo and MSN read the sitemaps i submit to google? I have a bit of a problem. I want to create webpages and then not directly link them to my homepage. I wanna do this to target some longtail keywords. I was thinking of using Google's sitemap to help solve this problem by still getting them indexed. However I'm not sure if they are going to show up for yahoo or msn. Suggestions?
Yahoo and MSN adopted the Google sitemap standard so, yes they will read google sitemaps. To be sure that Yahoo, MSN, ASK, etc are finding your sitemap you should place a reference to your sitemap location in your robots.txt file.