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Are Google and MSN sitemaps the same?

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I 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?Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:43 AM
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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
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:17 PM
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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
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:17 PM -
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
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:31 AM -
Saturday, October 4, 2008 12:20 AM
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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
NickWednesday, October 15, 2008 1:10 PM -
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.xmlSunday, October 26, 2008 2:30 PM -
Does this mean we can submit the same XML Sitemap file to MSN and Google?Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:48 PM
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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.
Sunday, November 30, 2008 11:22 AM -
@catanich,
Yes, you can submit the same xml file to all of the big three SEs ( Live Search, Google and Yahoo).
Monday, December 1, 2008 1:14 AM -
@Brett Live in the Big 3? What year do you live in? the rest of us are in 2008 not 2002.Monday, December 1, 2008 2:47 AM
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I submitted my url for real estate auction
Not appearing in index yet.Monday, December 15, 2008 6:10 AM -
Brett - ThanksTuesday, December 30, 2008 11:03 PM
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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.
Thursday, January 8, 2009 3:14 AM -
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and scary masksWednesday, May 27, 2009 5:19 PM