Google Publishes Best Practices for XML Sitemaps and RSS and Atom Feeds

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Google has just published the latest in its best practices series, and this time it's dealing with XML sitemaps, and RSS and Atom feeds. It's obvious to most that these are important if we're to get the most out of our site indexing.

For optimal crawling, we recommend using both XML sitemaps and RSS/Atom feeds. XML sitemaps will give Google information about all of the pages on your site. RSS/Atom feeds will provide all updates on your site, helping Google to keep your content fresher in its index. Note that submitting sitemaps or feeds does not guarantee the indexing of those URLs.Google Publishes Best Practices for XML Sitemaps and RSS/Atom Feeds [googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com]