Sitemaps 314
Yahoo! — Site Explorer
has moved to
Bing
Webmaster
Tools (http:/
/ developer.
yahoo. com/
search/
siteexplorer/
V1/ ping.
html)
Ask.com http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap= Q: Does
Ask.com
support
sitemaps?
(http:/ /
about. ask.
com/ en/
docs/ about/
webmasters.
shtml#22)
Bing
(Live
Search)http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap= Bing
Webmaster
Tools (http:/
/ http://www. bing.
com/
webmaster)
Yandex — Sitemaps
files (http:/ /
help. yandex.
com/
webmaster/
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Sitemap URLs submitted using the sitemap submission
URLs need to be URL-encoded, replacing : with %3A, /
with %2F, etc.[7]Sitemap limits
Sitemap files have a limit of 50,000 URLs and 10
megabytes per sitemap. Sitemaps can be compressed using
gzip, reducing bandwidth consumption. Multiple sitemap
files are supported, with a Sitemap index file serving as an
entry point. Sitemap index files may not list more than
50,000 Sitemaps and must be no larger than 10MiB
(10,485,760 bytes) and can be compressed. You can have
more than one Sitemap index file.[7]
As with all XML files, any data values (including URLs)
must use entity escape codes for the characters ampersand
(&), single quote ('), double quote ("), less than (<), and
greater than (>).References