XML sitemaps may sound technical, but they’re very simple, often auto-generated within content management systems (CMS), and essential for achieving SEO success. Without a sitemap, you’re relying ...

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 ...

WordPress, the content management system running a third of today's internet sites, is getting built-in support for XML sitemaps. Also: Best web hosting services The feature will go live in WordPress ...

In the early days of search engines, I wasn’t much of a believer in XML sitemaps. But over time, I began to see first hand how they can benefit websites. XML sitemaps serve as a way to communicate ...

Michael Nguyen of Social Patterns has been quick to the draw in constructing a script for WordPress which constructs a php sitemap of a WordPress blog for inclusion into the new Google Sitemaps ...

Google's John Mueller said it is acceptable to restrict access of your XML Sitemaps to just search engines. So you can technically block humans from seeing your XML sitemaps but allow Google to access ...

Detailed information on sitemaps and the benefits of using them. This article covers how to properly create an XML sitemap using different tools and details on how you can fix existing sitemap errors.

Gary Illyes has recently been pretty active in the StackOverflow forums and just posted in a Stack Overflow thread that Google, and other search engines, mostly ignore the lastmod tag found within XML ...