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Thread: Bing Sitemap

  1. 05-13-2010, 05:19 PM #1
    ripyard is offline Junior Member
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    Default Bing Sitemap

    Is there any plans to create a bing sitemap similar to the existing google and yahoo sitemap?
  2. 09-03-2010, 11:50 AM #2
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    Default Did you ever get an answer to this?

    Wondering the same thing. Any answer on this yet?
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  3. 09-12-2010, 12:31 PM #3
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    The things i'm reading...Yahoo, Google, Bing and a few others are now all using the same xml schema. So in theory you should be able to submit the google sitemap to bing.

    References:

    http://www.ysearchblog.com/2009/06/11/sitemaps-update/

    this bing toolbox page points to sitemaps.org page: http://www.bing.com/toolbox/posts/ar...em-basics.aspx

    http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php
    Last edited by jjdunkel; 09-12-2010 at 12:35 PM.
  4. 09-12-2010, 12:41 PM #4
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    Sorry, one more reference:

    "The webmaster can generate a Sitemap containing all accessible URLs on the site and submit it to search engines. Since Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Ask use the same protocol now, having a Sitemap would let the biggest search engines have the updated pages information.

    Sitemaps supplement and do not replace the existing crawl-based mechanisms that search engines already use to discover URLs. Using this protocol does not guarantee that web pages will be included in search indexes, nor does it influence the way that pages are ranked in search results."

    from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemaps