XML Sitemaps are an essential tool for any website owner aiming to improve their rankings. These files assist search engines in understanding which pages you want indexed and which ones you don’t.

Google search advocate John Mueller has always downplayed the value of HTML sitemaps. Recently, he reiterated his dissatisfaction with HTML sitemaps, saying: “I changed my mind on HTML sitemaps over ...

Google Sites removed documentation on how to create sitemaps within the Google Sites. Google updated their documentation on March 1, 2021 to reflect that Google Sites does not auto-generate site maps.

Bing’s Six Best Practices For Sitemaps: Follow the sitemaps reference at www.sitemaps.org. Common mistakes […] Bing has posted on the Bing Webmaster blog their best practices on how to implement XML ...

Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft have joined forces to support Sitemaps 0.90 (www.sitemaps.org), a free and easy way for webmasters to notify search engines about their websites and be indexed more ...

Last week, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft & Ask.com To All Support Sitemaps Autodiscovery. So how do you ping these services to notify the search engines of an update to your Sitemaps, if you do not want to ...