Google has announced it’s opened a ping server for bloggers to ping them directly when you create a new blog entry using the XML-RPC protocol. In order to ping Google directly you simply need to ...

Given that XML sitemaps are intended to assist Google, site owners may assume they play a role in search rankings. But is that true?

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that having an XML Sitemap file is "a minimal baseline for any serious website." Basically, all serious websites should have an XML sitemap file part of it or ...

Google's John Mueller was asked if it is helps after doing a big URL migration to keep the old XML Sitemap file up for a bit. John said "the effect would be minimal" by using this strategy.

What to look for in Search Console indexing reports, plus learn why and how to create a dynamic Sitemap file.

Since Google launched XML Sitemaps back in 2005, they've added specialized formats to enable site owners to submit content other than web pages. Until ...

A bug in how Google handles XML sitemaps helped brand new sites rank for competitive terms by hijacking equity from legitimate sites. Was your site a victim?

SEO is an important part of an online administrator or digital content manager. An effective website is not just appealing to human visitors – they are also be easy for online spiders and bots to ...

Bill concludes that Google is in the process of building the world's largest XML database. This is all heady stuff and I'm not entirely convinced Google has actually got such a grand strategy.

Like Google, Yahoo has a limit on the number of queries that can be executed--but it's 5,000 queries per IP address per 24-hour period for all but the local search service, whose limit is 1,000.