Major search engines adopt same website indexing protocol
As recently reported by C|Net News.com, Yahoo! and Microsoft have adopted Google’s sitemap protocol. This will eventually prove to be a boon to website owners / managers since it removes some of the obstacles to using the indexing tools.
The website indexing protocols allow you to tell search engines about the pages on the website that you would like indexed. Instead of waiting for them to find all pages by spidering your site, they can download the list of pages. This makes it easier on the search engines since they don’t have to follow convoluted links to deep content, and it helps webmasters by enabling faster and more complete indexing. This is particularly advantageous to large sites and those with substantial ecommerce catalogs that have a difficult time getting all pages adequately indexed.
Rumors abound about the difficult of using current tools to create and maintain the index files, but the combined forces of the big three search engines will help drive improvements in the technology and supporting tools.
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