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Two URLs to a site — one that is prefaced with www and one that is not (for instance, http://www.example.com/ and http://example.com/) — often point to the same location on a server. But depending on the server configuration, they may point to different locations, so search engines can’t assume they are the same. … Continue reading »

If your site is located in a subdirectory, rather than at the root level of a domain (for instance, at http://www.example.com/site/), you are given two choices when you verify. You can either verify at the subdirectory level or at the root level. If you verify at the root level (http://www.example.com/), we can show … Continue reading »

We recently uploaded a new version (v1.4) of the the Sitemap Generator tool. This version has the same features as the last one, but fixes a subtle bug in writing GZip compressed Sitemap files. The old version stored more path information than it needed to when it created GZip files, and this was … Continue reading »

We’ve just updated the list of third-party programs that you can use to create Sitemaps. You can check out the current list on code.google.com. That page also lists the Sitemaps Google Group for each language we support. If you’ve written a tool that supports Google Sitemaps, let us know at code+sitemaps@google.com. Read more … Continue reading »

We’ve just updated the list of third-party programs that you can use to create Sitemaps. You can check out the current list on code.google.com. That page also lists the Sitemaps Google Group for each language we support. If you’ve written a tool that supports Google Sitemaps, let us know at code+sitemaps@google.com. Read more … Continue reading »

This morning we learned of an issue with the Google Sitemaps tool that may have temporarily enabled users to view statistics about sites they do not own. We acted quickly and fixed the issue. To ensure the security of all sites using the Google Sitemaps tool, we will re-verify all sites added in … Continue reading »