Are Google and MSN sitemaps the same?
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:43 AMI have used the same sitemap I use for Google to submit to MSN. Goggle maps all of the pages from my site Dees Fancy Dress Costumes but Webmaster live only shows 8 pages.
Do I have to add any other fields to my sitemap or is it that the bot is having trouble crawling my site?
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:17 PM
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
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:31 AM
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
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Friday, October 03, 2008 1:29 AMYou can find a reference at http://www.sitemaps.org
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Saturday, October 04, 2008 12:20 AM
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 PMHi 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
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Sunday, October 26, 2008 2:30 PMGoogle, 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 AMW3 has a new sitemap validator that is worth looking into.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:48 PMDoes this mean we can submit the same XML Sitemap file to MSN and Google?
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 1:12 AMAll 3 of the main US search engines support the same standard so you are fine.
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Sunday, November 30, 2008 11:22 AM
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.
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Monday, December 01, 2008 1:14 AM
@catanich,
Yes, you can submit the same xml file to all of the big three SEs ( Live Search, Google and Yahoo).
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Monday, December 01, 2008 2:47 AM@Brett Live in the Big 3? What year do you live in? the rest of us are in 2008 not 2002.
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Monday, December 15, 2008 6:10 AMI submitted my url for real estate auction
Not appearing in index yet. -
Tuesday, December 30, 2008 11:03 PMBrett - Thanks
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Thursday, January 08, 2009 3:14 AM
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.
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