Are Google and MSN sitemaps the same?

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• Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:17 PMBrett Yount

   
  

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  Hi,

   

  Live Search supports the joint sitemap protocol. I also noticed you weren't using a robots.txt file. I suggest using one and referencing your sitemap.

   

   

  Brett

   

   
• Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:31 AMPlanetEarth

   
  

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  Hi Brett,  I stumbled on this thread and found it interesting, can you please explain "referencing your sitemap" a little more for me.

  Thanks

  Mick

   
• Friday, October 03, 2008 1:29 AMVegan Fanatic

   
  

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  You can find a reference at http://www.sitemaps.org
  
  
  
   
• Saturday, October 04, 2008 12:20 AMPromoManagers.com

   
  

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  You'll generally find many of the sitemap generators will output with G in mind and that will almost always work fine with Live.
   
• Wednesday, October 15, 2008 1:10 PMnbam123

   
  

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  Hi Brett
  
  Can you explain why you would use the robots.txt file within a site map - would it be to purely direct the google bot or the msn bot? - or another reason?
  thanks
  Nick
  
   
• Sunday, October 26, 2008 2:30 PMahmita

   
  

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  Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! are coming together in support of the SiteMaps protocol. And my 上海礼品公司  has only one
  sitemap- http://www.188gift.com/Sitemap.xml
  
   
• Monday, October 27, 2008 1:17 AMVegan Fanatic

   
  

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  W3 has a new sitemap validator that is worth looking into.
  
   
• Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:48 PMCatanich

   
  

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  Does this mean we can submit the same XML Sitemap file to MSN and Google?

   

   
• Wednesday, November 19, 2008 1:12 AMVegan Fanatic

   
  

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  All 3 of the main US search engines support the same standard so you are fine.
  
  
  
   
• Sunday, November 30, 2008 11:22 AMalray

   
  

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  Yes they are the same, the only difference is Google follows your sitemap and indexes the pages in it MSN takes no notice of your sitemap.

   
• Monday, December 01, 2008 1:14 AMBrett Yount

   
  

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  @catanich,

   

  Yes, you can submit the same xml file to all of the big three SEs ( Live Search, Google and Yahoo).

   

   

   

   
• Monday, December 01, 2008 2:47 AMalray

   
  

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  @Brett Live in the Big 3? What year do you live in? the rest of us are in 2008 not 2002.
   
• Monday, December 15, 2008 6:10 AMJohn delroy

   
  

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  I submitted my url for real estate auction
  
  Not appearing in index yet.
  
   
• Tuesday, December 30, 2008 11:03 PMCatanich

   
  

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  Brett  -  Thanks

   

   
• Thursday, January 08, 2009 3:14 AMLand Guo

   
  

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  I submitted ulr of my  site :Solar Manufacturer,Solar Products  to LIVE  is  sitemap.txt  ,and same as yahoo . But  do it as Sitemap.xml to Google.

   

  That what i do  about the sitemap.

   
• Wednesday, May 27, 2009 5:19 PMmadhetty

   
  

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  I had exactly the same experience  but could only get 6 pages via webmaster live for my website halloween masks horror masks latex masks
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