Sitemaps, day 2

Thursday, April 12, 2007 by Dave Winer.

I now have my sitemaps implemented for scripting.com. 

There's a sitemapindex file, that points to all the sitemaps. 

By design, some never change; others change frequently. 

I've added the auto-discovery link in robots.txt. 

There's a lot of room for optimization, for sure. 

I followed the instructions for pinging the search engines, I tried Yahoo, Google, Ask and Microsoft; and none of them acknowledged that they accepted the ping, in fact they all returned cryptic error pages. Not a good omen!