Not to be confused with HTML sitemaps, which are designed to be viewed by humans, XML sitemaps are solely for search engines. Given that XML sitemaps are intended to assist Google, site owners may ...

Google’s Daniel Waisberg stated in a new video that sites don’t necessarily need sitemaps unless they fall into one of three categories. This information was provided in the latest episode of Google’s ...

Google's John Mueller said that pinging Google that your sitemap file has been updated can help Google index your new content quickly. He said it is simply good practice to ping Google with when your ...

Google announced it would end support for Sitemaps ping endpoints in six months. Google said this is because they are "not very useful" and the "vast majority of the submissions lead to spam." Google ...

Google launched a free service on Friday that gives Webmasters more control over what Web pages are crawled by the search engine. Until now, the most that Webmasters could do to encourage Google to ...

Toronto, Ontario’s Rage Software on Monday introduced Google Sitemap Automator 1.0, which it says is the first Google Sitemap creation tool for the Mac. The new software application costs US$29.95, ...