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How to Submit Cross-domain Sitemaps to Major Search Engines with Sitemap Cross-host Submission

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Published: Tuesday, March 04, 2008

The major search engines - Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft have officially announced the common support of a new protocol for cross-domain sitemap submission. This joint effort, dating back to November 2006 was officially adopted February 27, 2008.

This new standard will make it easier for webmasters to manage sitemaps across multiple domain hosts from a single domain host and letting search engines know the locations of sitemaps via the standardized robots.txt file picked up by search engine robots aka spiders.

How Cross-domain Sitemap Submission Works

Let's say for example you're the webmaster of multiple websites, www.mydomain.com and blog.mydomain.com for technical challenges or simply ease of management you may want to host both sitemaps under one domain host, for example: sitemaps.mydomain.com. Previously each sitemap would have needed to reside within each domain host however; with the new sitemap protocol - the sitemaps can now reside in the single domain host by simply including a common reference in the robots.txt file to establish a trusted relationship amongst the cross-domains.

Example reference for sitemaps in robots.txt file:

Sitemap: http://sitemaps.mydomain.com/www.mydomain.com.xml

Notes:
Sitemaps can be formatted in the standard sitemap XML, RSS and text format. The maximum recommended file size of robots.txt file should not exceed 1MB. When multiple sitemaps for domain include identical URLs metadata will be disregarded and only the URL will be examined by search engine bots. Sitemap files should not exceed 10MB in file size.

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Why is Duplicate Content Bad?

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Published: Friday, August 13, 2010

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Published: Monday, April 26, 2010

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Published: Friday, April 23, 2010

Infinity Arts produces a great new website, with great results, for Finder Technologies, a company who has been struggling to get found online.

Infinity Arts is Doing Our Part, Are You?

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Published: Thursday, April 22, 2010

The urge to go green over the past year has grown immensely. At Infinity Arts we are doing our part to be green and have made list of a few things you could do as a business owner to go green too.

Join Infinity Arts at the Fifth Annual Community Business Expo

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Published: Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Join members of Infinity Arts at the Fifth Annual Community Business Expo that is hosted by the Professional Women’s Roundtable. This is a great business opportunity for any business owner to showcase their goods or services to the community.