Google has made a small note to the sitemap documentation to add that the lastmod date specified in the sitemap file "should reflect the date and time of the last significant update to the page." This ...

There is a WebmasterWorld thread named Removing the Google sitemap got all my pages indexed. People in that thread tend to be piggy backing off each-other, saying that after removing their Google ...

Google’s Daniel Waisberg stated in a new video that sites don’t necessarily need sitemaps unless they fall into one of three categories. This information was provided in the latest episode of Google’s ...

Want to improve your website coverage on Google – Read this. Google have started a new service called Google Sitemaps – a collaborative crawling system for improving the coverage and freshness of ...

The Google Webmaster Central blog notified us that Googlers have presented a new study on Sitemaps at the WWW’09 conference in Madrid. The study is absolutely interesting and I recommend printing out ...

The Google Webmaster Central team posted a known issue report with a bug in the reporting engine within Google Webmaster Tools. The indexed URLs report is currently showing 0 pages indexed for most ...

Toronto, Ontario’s Rage Software on Monday introduced Google Sitemap Automator 1.0, which it says is the first Google Sitemap creation tool for the Mac. The new software application costs US$29.95, ...