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Posted: Monday, June 16th, 2008 at 6:01 pm. Filed in Features.

XML Sitemaps

by Nikolay Bachiyski

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. ;)

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  1. tasithoughts
    June 17th, 2008 at 6:21 am

    Great news. Thanks for the sitemaps feature

  2. the rufus
    June 17th, 2008 at 6:21 am

    I realized already yesterday – hopefully I’ll get some views each day now :lol:

  3. Craig Hodgkins
    June 17th, 2008 at 6:25 am

    Sounds very cool for an eclectic blog such as mine. Let’s see if visits go up…

  4. Bri
    June 17th, 2008 at 6:28 am

    Great Feature. thanks. wordpress Rock!!

  5. Benjamin
    June 17th, 2008 at 6:28 am

    Hurray! Thank you!

  6. akhdian
    June 17th, 2008 at 6:35 am

    Great Idea… Thanks..

  7. Zeezat
    June 17th, 2008 at 6:42 am

    Wow..

    Nice and awaited feature. Keep growing.

    Best smile,
    Zeezat

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  9. Sunili
    June 17th, 2008 at 6:45 am

    Well why thank you, WordPress people! Y’all are awesome!

  10. thomay
    June 17th, 2008 at 7:02 am

    cool

  11. Gurindam Jiwa
    June 17th, 2008 at 7:04 am

    Oh thank you. Keep up the good work.

  12. Charlene Farber
    June 17th, 2008 at 7:24 am

    nice!!!

  13. kecebongsoft
    June 17th, 2008 at 7:40 am

    now its great! :D

  14. Johnny
    June 17th, 2008 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.

  15. unseen
    June 17th, 2008 at 7:44 am

    nice! very cool feature :-D

  16. MadMark
    June 17th, 2008 at 7:53 am

    Great!!!

  17. ttvhcs
    June 17th, 2008 at 7:59 am

    Thanks!

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  19. Trance4you
    June 17th, 2008 at 8:02 am

    Thank you very much!!! It’s cool new opportunity!

  20. RAUFRAY
    June 17th, 2008 at 8:21 am

    nice )

  21. Carlos Jumbo G.
    June 17th, 2008 at 8:36 am

    Excellent, congratulations!!!. Good news :)

  22. Julio Fragoso
    June 17th, 2008 at 8:37 am

    i´m on my way !

    Just good stuff !

    TX once again

  23. rheine
    June 17th, 2008 at 8:45 am

    Great thanks a lot for this feature

  24. Lunken
    June 17th, 2008 at 8:56 am

    :-)
    Nice nice…

  25. Darius
    June 17th, 2008 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?

  26. Matt
    June 17th, 2008 at 9:07 am

    Darius, you don’t have to do a thing, a sitemap is automatically generated, enabled, and promoted for your blog.

  27. Sebastian
    June 17th, 2008 at 9:13 am

    Nothing pretty, but useful nonetheless. Thanks, guys!

  28. omarabid
    June 17th, 2008 at 9:34 am

    Really nice and helpful! Thanks to you WordPress Team

  29. Dilip Prakash
    June 17th, 2008 at 9:52 am

    Good to Hear from wordpress again with a new Feature….

  30. M. C.
    June 17th, 2008 at 10:19 am

    Thanks for the good news and all the efforts!!
    Indeed this is a great Monday!

  31. مسعود قاسمی
    June 17th, 2008 at 10:24 am

    hi
    thanks a lot

  32. Chaitanya Varma Mudunuri
    June 17th, 2008 at 10:25 am

    Thanks a lot…
    On more great feature!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  33. BiB
    June 17th, 2008 at 10:38 am

    Ah, so that’s why I never had any visitors! (Only joking.) Thanks for another innovation.

  34. Boopeh-Nator
    June 17th, 2008 at 10:52 am

    Awesome! :D

  35. Георги
    June 17th, 2008 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.

  36. Gianluca Sgalambro
    June 17th, 2008 at 11:00 am

    Thanks, good stuff. And good to know we have to do nothing :)

  37. Matt
    June 17th, 2008 at 11:01 am

    Георги, you can exclude yourself from search engines under Settings > Privacy.

  38. Dopey Cowboy
    June 17th, 2008 at 11:21 am

    Nice. Look forward to the attention.
    You guys rock,
    Dopey

  39. aporia
    June 17th, 2008 at 11:31 am

    That’s interesting.

  40. MAV
    June 17th, 2008 at 11:36 am

    cool

  41. Moon
    June 17th, 2008 at 11:59 am

    O.K. :)

  42. Kamen
    June 17th, 2008 at 12:14 pm

    Sounds interesting :D . Thank you on the update.

  43. Suluh
    June 17th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

    Cools!! Another Great Job! Thanks

  44. Emanuele Cipolla
    June 17th, 2008 at 12:18 pm

    That’s good. Using RSS feeds as sitemaps was not a piece of cake. Thanks :)

  45. Teck
    June 17th, 2008 at 12:20 pm

    Thank you!!! :)

  46. streetsofdublin
    June 17th, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    This is good news … thanks

  47. sheepoo
    June 17th, 2008 at 12:41 pm

    I like it :)

  48. Fr Renzo di Lorenzo
    June 17th, 2008 at 1:04 pm

    Thanks for that. Highly appreciated.

  49. grinder
    June 17th, 2008 at 1:17 pm

    Simply fantastic…

  50. Víctor Azuaje
    June 17th, 2008 at 1:42 pm

    Great! Is there any way for us to have access to the file?

  51. Manuel Reis
    June 17th, 2008 at 1:45 pm

    Cool feature! Thanks, Nick!

  52. plugginaway4him
    June 17th, 2008 at 2:13 pm

    awesome!

  53. Ilan
    June 17th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    Really? their are site maps now. Oh cool. First one here to?

  54. afruj
    June 17th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

    Have to check

  55. mudge
    June 17th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

    Once again, WordPress.com shows that it is absolutely the best! Thanks!

  56. muccamargo
    June 17th, 2008 at 2:50 pm

    Nice Nikolay! Very nice!
    Thanks!!!

  57. tippsundtricks
    June 17th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

    Very good idea!

    Thanks.

  58. cap
    June 17th, 2008 at 3:01 pm

    great surprise! thanks guys!

    cap

  59. Gerald Ford
    June 17th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

    A good feature to have, thank you. :)

  60. tvblogg
    June 17th, 2008 at 3:06 pm

    :) great work!

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  62. George Pearce
    June 17th, 2008 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?

  63. Matt
    June 17th, 2008 at 3:20 pm

    George, we’ve made the sitemaps auto-discoverable in the robots.txt feed.

  64. grantman
    June 17th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    again …thank you …you guys & gals are the best
    grantman

  65. deerhunttips
    June 17th, 2008 at 3:46 pm

    Thanks Nick.

  66. Harshad Joshi
    June 17th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    Is it enabled by default?

  67. Harper
    June 17th, 2008 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!

  68. Orlando
    June 17th, 2008 at 4:13 pm

    Thank You!

  69. wanton me
    June 17th, 2008 at 4:14 pm

    Yeah! Good job guys!

  70. Phil Groom
    June 17th, 2008 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…

  71. Mariano Andrés
    June 17th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

    This is great!

  72. Brent
    June 17th, 2008 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.

  73. torontocondo
    June 17th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

    Great, look forward to positive results from more search engines!!

  74. thaitravelinfo
    June 17th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    Thanks you

  75. Guymed
    June 17th, 2008 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. :D

  76. Tim Wilson
    June 17th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    That’s fantastic. What’s the address for it going to be?

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  78. josephmallozzi
    June 17th, 2008 at 5:07 pm

    Great addition. Thanks.

  79. jimmyjames91
    June 17th, 2008 at 5:15 pm

    yay! gotta love something out there just doing it’s thing for ya!

  80. vonpip
    June 17th, 2008 at 5:17 pm

    Lovely !! I like you guys!

  81. vanscott
    June 17th, 2008 at 5:21 pm

    Thanks! We need all of the help we can get to achieve greater readership!!

  82. docliptz
    June 17th, 2008 at 5:23 pm

    Great idea, thanks!

  83. DP
    June 17th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

    So sweet! thanks!

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  85. boyo
    June 17th, 2008 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

  86. anna1978
    June 17th, 2008 at 5:44 pm

    Awesome feature! Thanks!

  87. collaborativeinformation
    June 17th, 2008 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

  88. MondoFree
    June 17th, 2008 at 6:02 pm

    Thanks a lot

  89. Roberto Malfatti
    June 17th, 2008 at 6:11 pm

    Thanks!

  90. solusloqui
    June 17th, 2008 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! ;)

  91. iamthelostgirl
    June 17th, 2008 at 6:14 pm

    Thanks, very useful.

  92. mikecane
    June 17th, 2008 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.

  93. Florian Huber
    June 17th, 2008 at 6:40 pm

    Sounds good to me. Keep on working.

  94. richard brisebois
    June 17th, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    excellent!

  95. Dont be sad
    June 17th, 2008 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 (:

  96. djcytheria
    June 17th, 2008 at 7:03 pm

    that is great news!!

  97. riddax
    June 17th, 2008 at 7:06 pm

    This is just awesome, great work!

  98. mposey
    June 17th, 2008 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!

  99. missionlog
    June 17th, 2008 at 7:11 pm

    Thanks for the sitemaps!

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