Multiple Sitemap Submissions: Fact Or Fiction?
Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Wednesday, 31 of October , 2007 at 2:57 pm
A few days ago, Google published on its Webmaster Central Blog that website owner can now submit sitemaps for sites that exist on separate hosts from a single dedicated host. This is a useful tool. But should you use it?
I think it depends. How much do you want Google to know about you?
The real issue is that you have to prove that you own both websites. Do you want Google knowing that about you? If not, then you probably don’t want to take advantage of this sitemap service. But if you don’t care then it’s a useful service.
Now you can submit separate sitemaps for two different websites that you own even if they are on separate web hosts. All you do is go through the usual sitemap creation and verification process for each sitemap that you want to create. Then you can store your sitemaps, both of them, on either host. This only works for Google, though, not all search engines. But Google does say that it is “in discussion” with other search engines to solve the issue of how to make sitemap submissions easier across the board. We’ll wait to see what happens.
Category: Search Engines
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