XML sitemaps just turned 18 in June, and in honor of its full-fledged introduction into adulthood, I’m breaking down how XML sitemaps work, how to build one, and why XML sitemaps offer a boatload of ...

Getting your XML sitemap priorities right isn’t rocket science, but it’s something that trips up more people than you’d think. We see it constantly with new clients who come to us for SEO services for ...

Google loves XML Sitemaps, it gives their bots an easy way to discover all your content. Even better, it gives webmasters a way to see how many of their URLs in their sitemap file were indexed and ...

Not to be confused with HTML sitemaps, which are designed to be viewed by humans, XML sitemaps are solely for search engines. Given that XML sitemaps are intended to assist Google, site owners may ...

The inclusion of XML Sitemaps as a WordPress Core feature has been proposed by a group of Yoast and Google team members as well as other contributors. In addition to a basic XML Sitemap, the proposal ...

This article is excerpted from Ajax for Web Application Developers, copyright 2007, published last month by Sams Publishing. Reprinted with permission, all rights ...