XML Sitemaps
It is hard for search engines to grasp the tens of millions posts at WordPress.com, so we’re giving them a hand.
I’ve always wished to start the week with a new SEO feature. That’s why we have an early Monday surprise for you — XML Sitemaps for all WordPress.com blogs.
From the Sitemaps.org website:
Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling.
Translated that means that search engines have a better idea of your content and might start to send more traffic to you.
The funny thing is that you don’t have to inform anybody, because we will do it automatically for you. A sitemap file is available to every search engine that supports the protocol including Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com, and others.
Now, feel free to write a new post to deserve the increased attention by the search engines. 
Jun 17th at 6:21 am
Great news. Thanks for the sitemaps feature
Jun 17th at 6:21 am
I realized already yesterday – hopefully I’ll get some views each day now
Jun 17th at 6:25 am
Sounds very cool for an eclectic blog such as mine. Let’s see if visits go up…
Jun 17th at 6:28 am
Great Feature. thanks. wordpress Rock!!
Jun 17th at 6:28 am
Hurray! Thank you!
Jun 17th at 6:35 am
Great Idea… Thanks..
Jun 17th at 6:42 am
Wow..
Nice and awaited feature. Keep growing.
Best smile,
Zeezat
Jun 17th at 6:45 am
Well why thank you, WordPress people! Y’all are awesome!
Jun 17th at 7:02 am
cool
Jun 17th at 7:04 am
Oh thank you. Keep up the good work.
Jun 17th at 7:24 am
nice!!!
Jun 17th at 7:40 am
now its great!
Jun 17th at 7:41 am
That’s awesome
…
Now, if you only make importing post from a self-hosted wordpress blog easier (ie. support for auto-importing images) a lot of people would be eager to move and stop mantaining their self-hosted solution.
Jun 17th at 7:44 am
nice! very cool feature
Jun 17th at 7:53 am
Great!!!
Jun 17th at 7:59 am
Thanks!
Jun 17th at 8:02 am
Thank you very much!!! It’s cool new opportunity!
Jun 17th at 8:21 am
nice )
Jun 17th at 8:36 am
Excellent, congratulations!!!. Good news
Jun 17th at 8:37 am
i´m on my way !
Just good stuff !
TX once again
Jun 17th at 8:45 am
Great thanks a lot for this feature
Jun 17th at 8:56 am
Nice nice…
Jun 17th at 9:06 am
Hi! What does this new feature mean exactly? That I don’t have to “install” by myself a sitemap.xml on my blog anymore? It’ll be automatically installed?
Jun 17th at 9:07 am
Darius, you don’t have to do a thing, a sitemap is automatically generated, enabled, and promoted for your blog.
Jun 17th at 9:13 am
Nothing pretty, but useful nonetheless. Thanks, guys!
Jun 17th at 9:34 am
Really nice and helpful! Thanks to you WordPress Team
Jun 17th at 9:52 am
Good to Hear from wordpress again with a new Feature….
Jun 17th at 10:19 am
Thanks for the good news and all the efforts!!
Indeed this is a great Monday!
Jun 17th at 10:24 am
hi
thanks a lot
Jun 17th at 10:25 am
Thanks a lot…
On more great feature!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jun 17th at 10:38 am
Ah, so that’s why I never had any visitors! (Only joking.) Thanks for another innovation.
Jun 17th at 10:52 am
Awesome!
Jun 17th at 11:00 am
I don’t like it. I wouldn’t like you do this automatically. The better solution is to add an option that will allow to switch on/off this possibility. In fact I don’t care about SEO and I don’t want my blog to appear in search engines.
Jun 17th at 11:00 am
Thanks, good stuff. And good to know we have to do nothing
Jun 17th at 11:01 am
Георги, you can exclude yourself from search engines under Settings > Privacy.
Jun 17th at 11:21 am
Nice. Look forward to the attention.
You guys rock,
Dopey
Jun 17th at 11:31 am
That’s interesting.
Jun 17th at 11:36 am
cool
Jun 17th at 11:59 am
O.K.
Jun 17th at 12:14 pm
Sounds interesting
. Thank you on the update.
Jun 17th at 12:15 pm
Cools!! Another Great Job! Thanks
Jun 17th at 12:18 pm
That’s good. Using RSS feeds as sitemaps was not a piece of cake. Thanks
Jun 17th at 12:20 pm
Thank you!!!
Jun 17th at 12:27 pm
This is good news … thanks
Jun 17th at 12:41 pm
I like it
Jun 17th at 1:04 pm
Thanks for that. Highly appreciated.
Jun 17th at 1:17 pm
Simply fantastic…
Jun 17th at 1:42 pm
Great! Is there any way for us to have access to the file?
Jun 17th at 1:45 pm
Cool feature! Thanks, Nick!
Jun 17th at 2:13 pm
awesome!
Jun 17th at 2:16 pm
Really? their are site maps now. Oh cool. First one here to?
Jun 17th at 2:30 pm
Have to check
Jun 17th at 2:48 pm
Once again, WordPress.com shows that it is absolutely the best! Thanks!
Jun 17th at 2:50 pm
Nice Nikolay! Very nice!
Thanks!!!
Jun 17th at 2:56 pm
Very good idea!
Thanks.
Jun 17th at 3:01 pm
great surprise! thanks guys!
cap
Jun 17th at 3:04 pm
A good feature to have, thank you.
Jun 17th at 3:06 pm
Jun 17th at 3:19 pm
Awesome move guys!
It’s a pity that Google and such don’t support submissions unless you’re verified on their webmaster tools or similar, but i’m sure they’ll find them.
I presume that links to the blogs sitemap will be added to the site footer, so websites like Google can find them?
Jun 17th at 3:20 pm
George, we’ve made the sitemaps auto-discoverable in the robots.txt feed.
Jun 17th at 3:39 pm
again …thank you …you guys & gals are the best
grantman
Jun 17th at 3:46 pm
Thanks Nick.
Jun 17th at 3:47 pm
Is it enabled by default?
Jun 17th at 4:01 pm
Yes! It gets frustrating at times not having the full .org functionality of plugins and user-modifiable code for the .com blogs, but this helps in one area. Thanks much!
Jun 17th at 4:13 pm
Thank You!
Jun 17th at 4:14 pm
Yeah! Good job guys!
Jun 17th at 4:14 pm
Way cool, guys: thank you. Can we access our site maps ourselves, please? I’ve always fancied myself as a spider, see, and I want to see how things look from a SE spider’s POV…
Jun 17th at 4:24 pm
This is great!
Jun 17th at 4:26 pm
So now what do I do? How can I access it or view the address? Please advise on where to go from here. Thanks by the way, but please explain in more detail.
Jun 17th at 4:28 pm
Great, look forward to positive results from more search engines!!
Jun 17th at 4:41 pm
Thanks you
Jun 17th at 4:41 pm
That’s a pretty good feature
But give us the ability to turn it on and off. In case there is a blog that doesn’t want to be seen on search engines. The feature is awesome, I can tell you that.
Jun 17th at 4:41 pm
That’s fantastic. What’s the address for it going to be?
Jun 17th at 5:07 pm
Great addition. Thanks.
Jun 17th at 5:15 pm
yay! gotta love something out there just doing it’s thing for ya!
Jun 17th at 5:17 pm
Lovely !! I like you guys!
Jun 17th at 5:21 pm
Thanks! We need all of the help we can get to achieve greater readership!!
Jun 17th at 5:23 pm
Great idea, thanks!
Jun 17th at 5:28 pm
So sweet! thanks!
Jun 17th at 5:42 pm
Does this apply retroactively to all of my prior posts or does it solely apply to posts from here on out?
Thanks
Jun 17th at 5:44 pm
Awesome feature! Thanks!
Jun 17th at 6:01 pm
Thanks a lot. SEO is the latest buzzword and this will definitely help to pick up the posts amongst the myriad of posts and blogs out there.
Way to go and keep on improving
Jun 17th at 6:02 pm
Thanks a lot
Jun 17th at 6:11 pm
Thanks!
Jun 17th at 6:11 pm
Come on, this is just great, people! You know at the very first moment you put something on the net it will be available to be searched.. and now it’s even better through this facility! Thanks WP!
Jun 17th at 6:14 pm
Thanks, very useful.
Jun 17th at 6:39 pm
WordPress was already startlingly-good for getting my blog posts into search engines. I’ve had my posts pop up first in Google on more than one occasion.
Jun 17th at 6:40 pm
Sounds good to me. Keep on working.
Jun 17th at 6:44 pm
excellent!
Jun 17th at 6:45 pm
“The funny thing is that you don’t have to inform anybody, because we will do it automatically for you.”
Funny (:
Jun 17th at 7:03 pm
that is great news!!
Jun 17th at 7:06 pm
This is just awesome, great work!
Jun 17th at 7:08 pm
I love it. I have been trying to optimize my site for search engines; now you’re doing it for me on my blog. Thanks!
Jun 17th at 7:11 pm
Thanks for the sitemaps!