Google launches Sitemaps
Wednesday, August 17th, 2005Google has recently launched Sitemaps a service that will allow webmaster to notify directly to Google when their websites are updates and allows to having to crawl millions of pages in big sites and also not leaving anything alone. It also supplies search engine submission in an more easy way.
It would be nice if other wearch engines start making use of this technology and becomes a substite of the old robots.txt. Will Google at least let us search depending on the last time a website has been updated?
I think there is only a problem that it is not really an standard so you have to ping google every time you update the website, so that could not be used by other search engines. Also, some websites are updated hundreds of times a day and only alternative is to create a cron job that does it periodically. Other webmasters could easily find a way to use it for spam.
My suggestion is to add this inside the head tag of your website:
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