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Old 09-04-2007, 08:22 PM   #1 (permalink)
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What's the difference between sitemap.xml and sitemap.txt?

I have got two files:sitemap.xml and sitemap.txt,and I have submitted the former one to google.I don't know what's the use sitemap.txt.Do I just upload it to my web space?
By the way,I read an article about robots.txt,and I put sitemap.xml in the file( just like this:
sitemap: http://mysite.com/sitemap.xml)
Is that OK?
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Old 09-05-2007, 08:03 AM   #2 (permalink)
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thats the sitemap format for yahoo...
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Old 09-05-2007, 11:29 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I have got two files:sitemap.xml and sitemap.txt,and I have submitted the former one to google.I don't know what's the use sitemap.txt.Do I just upload it to my web space?
By the way,I read an article about robots.txt,and I put sitemap.xml in the file( just like this:
sitemap: http://mysite.com/sitemap.xml)
Is that OK?
Xml is the format for submitting sitemaps to Google. Txt is the formal for submitting urllist/sitemap to Yahoo
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Old 09-05-2007, 01:21 PM   #4 (permalink)
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I have got two files:sitemap.xml and sitemap.txt,and I have submitted the former one to google.I don't know what's the use sitemap.txt.Do I just upload it to my web space?
By the way,I read an article about robots.txt,and I put sitemap.xml in the file( just like this:
sitemap: http://mysite.com/sitemap.xml)
Is that OK?
I think xml for Google and for Yahoo you can choose whether the xml or the txt one...

Because here is the news that the 3 Big SEs team up on sitemap.. Click this link

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It's so kind of you to explain it clearly.As I was told,I have submitted xml to google and txt to yahoo respectively.
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By the way,I read an article about robots.txt,
hi jetshing, do u mind to show me the link on robots.txt u read? or u may advise me where to find robots.txt log if search engine robot crawler visited my website.
btw, I still using htm extension for my site map ; should I change into sitemap.xml for google robot?

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just like this:
Sitemap: http://yoursite/sitemap.xml
I think we can use sitemap.htm,too.
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