Yahoo, Google and Microsoft Join Forces.

It's not often that the three big search engines collaborate together to make life easier for webmasters and marketeers alike. However, the 'big 3' have launched sitemap.org 0.90 a site developed to make the job of submitting web pages for indexing by the search engines much simpler.

Historically, ensuring that your site was visited and indexed by the various search engine robots was a bit of a 'black art'. This was eased somewhat when Google introduced it's original sitemap service back in June 2005, created to enable sites to 'push' content to Google rather than wait (And hope) the robots would visit and index your site. The latest collaboration see's the concept of sitemaps evolve even further and should prove very popular with website owners looking to streamline their submission processes.

For more information about sitemaps including why they are important and how to implement them please visit http://www.sitemaps.org/ or to view a short video on why the search engines are collaborating on this project please visit webpronews.

And finally, go check that your IT team are implementing sitemaps (we still see lots that don't). If not, tell them they need to read, review and implement sitemaps - it's good for your business!