If you are a Web designer/master, and you care about your search engine rankings, you probably have a Google account and a list of sites with submitted site maps which you submitted in order to speed up the indexing and ranking process.
(If you don't have an account, you need to stop everything you're doing right now, create an account and start uploading XML site maps for the Web sites you manage!)
You're onboard, right? Good, because I have some news for you. Microsoft and Yahoo! have adopted the Google site map XML protocol for their own submission purposes. All that extra work you've been doing to get yourself noticed on Google can now pay off with the other two largest search engines on the Net.
Not comfortable creating your own XML sitemaps? XML-Sitemaps.com can do it for you. Input your URL, generate the markup, save it to an XML file, upload it and tell Google, Yahoo and Microsoft where to find it. It's that simple.
Best of luck with your future rankings!
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