This is great news for SEOs and webmasters as there were fears the major search engines would introduce their own Sitemap equivalent protocol.
“Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling…” – Sitemaps.org
Congratulations to Sitemaps.org for their dedication as well as the SE’s for widely supporting this feature.
Sitemaps of your website can be submitted to major search engines at:
- Yahoo! Site Explorer
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ - Google Webmaster Tools
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ - Microsoft Search
A submission system for Microsoft Search is expected in 2007.
