Good news for webmasters of English-language news sites: If your site is currently included in Google News, you can now create News Sitemaps that tell us exactly which articles to crawl for inclusion in Google News. In addition, you can access crawl errors, which tell you if there were any problems...
Joint support for the Sitemap Protocol
We're thrilled to tell you that Yahoo! and Microsoft are joining us in supporting the Sitemap protocol.As part of this development, we're moving the protocol to a new namespace, www.sitemaps.org, and raising the version number to 0.9. The sponsoring companies will continue to collaborate on the protocol...
New third-party Sitemaps tools
Hello, webmasters, I'm Maile, and I recently joined the team here at Google webmaster central. And I already have good news to report: we've updated our third-party program and websites information. These third-party tools provide lots of options for easily generate a Sitemap -- from plugins for content...
Learn more about Googlebot's crawl of your site and more!
We've added a few new features to webmaster tools and invite you to check them out.Googlebot activity reportsCheck out these cool charts! We show you the number of pages Googlebot's crawled from your site per day, the number of kilobytes of data Googlebot's downloaded per day, and the average time it...
Multiple Sitemaps in the same directory
We've gotten a few questions about whether you can put multiple Sitemaps in the same directory. Yes, you can!You might want to have multiple Sitemap files in a single directory for a number of reasons. For instance, if you have an auction site, you might want to have a daily Sitemap with new auction...
