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

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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. janetching
    June 17th, 2008 at 7:18 pm

    Great stuff : ) I have moved from blogger to wordpress only for 2 weeks or so and am very happy with it. Many thanks!

  2. reckonerz
    June 17th, 2008 at 7:23 pm

    thanks.. hats off..

  3. Karen
    June 17th, 2008 at 7:36 pm

    Fantastic. Thanks a lot.

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  5. Shakan97
    June 17th, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    Thanks, Good stuff! Awesome =D

  6. Lilja
    June 17th, 2008 at 8:48 pm

    Good idea. It’s nice to have feature like that ;)

  7. thespiritdog
    June 17th, 2008 at 8:50 pm

    woof woof woof woof woof !!!! ( Translation) You guys are the best !!!!

  8. papundits
    June 17th, 2008 at 8:59 pm

    Hey, Super!!!
    Thank you very much.
    Ed

  9. Tony Whitson
    June 17th, 2008 at 9:08 pm

    Георги, We have the option to have our blogs visible but blocked from the search engines. I have different blogs that are and are not blocked that way, and it seems to work just as desired. I am sure that WordPress does not propagate this sitemap feature for blogs that have been set to block the search engines.

  10. Mark
    June 17th, 2008 at 9:28 pm

    thanks.. the hits have already shot up on my blog ;)

  11. OPENGIGA
    June 17th, 2008 at 9:52 pm

    thanks for the great updates

  12. jonturkler
    June 17th, 2008 at 10:02 pm

    thnks

  13. fortsmithrealestate
    June 17th, 2008 at 10:07 pm

    This really is some great news that will be very helpful to us all.

  14. nicereddy
    June 17th, 2008 at 10:26 pm

    My hits have lowered! OMG lol probably just because it’s tuesday and tuesday’s are always slow! I don’t fully understand it but if I read or 1 or 2 more times I think I’ll get what your talking about!
    RED OUT

  15. Melana
    June 17th, 2008 at 10:55 pm

    Thanks you for the support!

  16. Christian López Espínola
    June 17th, 2008 at 11:13 pm

    I’ve seen more visits too in past two days… Great feature!

  17. fcassis
    June 17th, 2008 at 11:29 pm

    Thanksmerciobrigadachokrangraciasdjinkujearigatodanke
    :)

  18. sarisaritots
    June 17th, 2008 at 11:43 pm

    great! =)

    Maraming salamat… (Thank you…)

  19. Jimmy
    June 17th, 2008 at 11:48 pm

    Thanks! That’s a great news. :)

  20. Solo
    June 18th, 2008 at 12:13 am

    Sounds like a good feature to me! Thanks guys!

  21. mashlima
    June 18th, 2008 at 12:26 am

    Many thanks :)

  22. timhorsburgh
    June 18th, 2008 at 12:52 am

    Awesome.

    I SEO a beautiful future ahead…

  23. furious buddha
    June 18th, 2008 at 12:54 am

    Seriously, I’m getting all sorts of new traffic. Whatever you tech wizards did, it was effective. Thanks.
    Winson Delgado

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  25. mon@rch
    June 18th, 2008 at 1:40 am

    The best thing I have heard in a long time! Thanks Guys!

  26. jaredb.
    June 18th, 2008 at 2:04 am

    huzzah!!!

  27. nonnie9999
    June 18th, 2008 at 2:09 am

    damn, more traffic? now i will have to get dressed and put on makeup to blog! :roll:

    ps. thanks to the hard-working wordpress kids who keep this place going. :wink:

  28. cloaknbadger
    June 18th, 2008 at 2:15 am

    Thanks man. Looks good!

  29. Mary Pasicatan
    June 18th, 2008 at 2:33 am

    Awesome!! Now I can get more work….

  30. within6degrees
    June 18th, 2008 at 2:34 am

    Thanks! You guys are awesome! :-)

  31. jaredb.
    June 18th, 2008 at 3:25 am

    and I wrote a tutorial on how to add your sitemap to Google’s Webmaster tools, see http://jaredbrodsky.com/2008/06/17/new-wordpress-xml-sitemaps-and-google/

  32. Jeremy
    June 18th, 2008 at 3:30 am

    AWESOME!!

  33. Jan Turner
    June 18th, 2008 at 3:43 am

    You creative geniuses have some pretty dynamic momentum going. Thanks for everything. Jan

  34. Tyas
    June 18th, 2008 at 3:57 am

    You guys never stop, don’t you ;-)
    Thanks…

  35. ircopcito
    June 18th, 2008 at 4:08 am

    Nice, good work.
    Cya!.-

  36. 123kreditkarte
    June 18th, 2008 at 4:09 am

    Awesome – Thanks a lot

  37. 1chica
    June 18th, 2008 at 5:13 am

    This is really nice news – thanks

  38. Ed
    June 18th, 2008 at 5:38 am

    woot! thanks guys, part of the reason I use you to publish my blog is that the network and the programming you create DOES get such good search engine rankings…….

  39. Grace
    June 18th, 2008 at 6:01 am

    Fabulous. Thanks, guys.

  40. Jonathan Tardif
    June 18th, 2008 at 6:04 am

    Thanks very much! You guys rock.

  41. deftoned
    June 18th, 2008 at 6:17 am

    Good news! Now if only the Possibly related posts feature worked better….

  42. gitarTELi
    June 18th, 2008 at 7:16 am

    nice!

  43. vnwallpapers
    June 18th, 2008 at 9:11 am

    Oh oh la la a ! Power Full Blog !

  44. loyalpk
    June 18th, 2008 at 9:28 am

    it’s actually working i just searched my blog and amazingly all are being updated in the search engine…….hmmm, great addition ;)

  45. europeanfootballcup
    June 18th, 2008 at 10:08 am

    thank you WP. :) keep going on.

  46. atikokan
    June 18th, 2008 at 10:12 am

    this is fantastic – great news for all wordpress junkies!

  47. mclearskin
    June 18th, 2008 at 10:38 am

    Thanks for the good news, Nikolay!
    Have a great day!

  48. robinpullen
    June 18th, 2008 at 10:40 am

    Hey Matt

    You seem to be the only proactive responce… on the responces…

    Kepp it up dude! Thanks for the tips.

    A Novice today… may be nobel in the future. It’s a really small(er) world.
    Ciao

  49. snowdobby
    June 18th, 2008 at 11:16 am

    Awesome! Great Job!!

  50. ipk4cumlaude
    June 18th, 2008 at 11:48 am

    Cool….

  51. Aitor de la Morena
    June 18th, 2008 at 11:53 am

    Thanks! SEO is always great ;)

  52. Nevis
    June 18th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    Great idea! So this is brand new to WordPress?

  53. peixesloucos
    June 18th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    once again, i am happy and proud to be wordpress user…

  54. Helen Todd
    June 18th, 2008 at 1:43 pm

    love the update and especially the part that it will be done automatically!! thanks!!

  55. hal786
    June 18th, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    cool..

    it would be better if it could work for our old posts aswell

    ———not just for the new posts

  56. Jas
    June 18th, 2008 at 3:56 pm

    To see the sitemap go to: link-to-your-blog.wordpress.com/sitemap.xml ;-)

  57. axinia
    June 18th, 2008 at 4:02 pm

    It works!!! I also noticed that and was wondering why the visits number increased that much :)
    keep up the great job!
    I LOVE WORDPRESS :)

  58. qbit
    June 18th, 2008 at 4:57 pm

    Great feature, indeed.

  59. Sah War
    June 18th, 2008 at 5:53 pm

    That`s one of those features that WordPress.com blogs really needed! Many thanks for the SEO updates with the new XML Sitemaps! Keep up the awesome work!

  60. pgsulins
    June 18th, 2008 at 6:28 pm

    perfect, good work.

  61. calmixx
    June 18th, 2008 at 8:12 pm

    Definately already seeing a traffic increase !
    I better sweep up in here.

  62. DR
    June 18th, 2008 at 9:38 pm

    Love you guys

  63. Simply Sue
    June 18th, 2008 at 9:39 pm

    You’re the greatest! I’m new to WordPress so look forward to the added benes.

  64. eddyk
    June 18th, 2008 at 10:28 pm

    Thank you very much, well done: hits are rocketing!!

  65. igorcant
    June 18th, 2008 at 11:05 pm

    Wow. I didn’t expect visitors! I guess I better spruce things up. Thanks WordPress.com!

  66. Neuromancer
    June 18th, 2008 at 11:29 pm

    you mised the bit to verify the sitemaps with out this its a waste of space get a grip

  67. Mr.Rockmantico
    June 18th, 2008 at 11:54 pm

    como mola!

  68. Nate Desmond
    June 19th, 2008 at 1:17 am

    Thanks! :O

  69. Madronna Holden
    June 19th, 2008 at 2:24 am

    Great. I wondered where all that new search engine traffic was coming from yesterday and today. Thank you.

  70. Amanda
    June 19th, 2008 at 2:36 am

    Thanks! Thats great news.

  71. Tom OKeefe
    June 19th, 2008 at 2:40 am

    Great new feature!

  72. DAVE ID
    June 19th, 2008 at 3:41 am

    I go under for a few days and I come back to new goodies. Always a good thing.

  73. buzu
    June 19th, 2008 at 4:08 am

    Great news… I hope I can get more traffic.

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  75. puppydazzles
    June 19th, 2008 at 4:44 am

    So that’s why I suddenly have a bunch of visitors to my site. Thank you for all that you are doing to get us SEO.

  76. xtrementalist
    June 19th, 2008 at 4:52 am

    uhummm…

  77. tampos
    June 19th, 2008 at 5:52 am

    nice

  78. pKay
    June 19th, 2008 at 6:34 am

    Haha… so no need to do anything and all of this is done behind the scenes automatically!? EXCELLENT!!!!

    Great job!!

  79. sankz
    June 19th, 2008 at 8:08 am

    Kewl…
    You guyz rock…

    :-)

  80. pubdomains
    June 19th, 2008 at 8:35 am

    Tough I am yet to see any change in traffic on the blog, introduction of sitemaps is certainly a welcome addition on wordpress!!!

    Good job!!

  81. rillys
    June 19th, 2008 at 10:16 am

    wow…i`m waiting for this news….thanks a lot…great news…and great job…

  82. brownbookproject
    June 19th, 2008 at 10:19 am

    just as I’ve started and have been learning about this you do it for me and save me the trouble. cheers.

  83. Polonicul Mov
    June 19th, 2008 at 12:38 pm

    thanks and well done. it really works, i’m getting alot of wierd searches

  84. peacefulone
    June 19th, 2008 at 12:52 pm

    Divine! I Love it! Love it! I Love WordPress! Nick, Mark…the bunch of y’all…and I keep you in my prayers!

  85. Sahil Bhalla
    June 19th, 2008 at 1:17 pm

    Wow. Awesome news!

  86. viswabharathi
    June 19th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

    Real stuff. thankz

  87. bri4n5
    June 19th, 2008 at 1:59 pm

    Thanks :) useful feature!

  88. Kathryn
    June 19th, 2008 at 2:19 pm

    I am really really happy to hear that. I have been in a rut for about 4 months now. I just can’t seem to go above a certain number with my visitors, no matter what I do. This should help a tremendously.

  89. Niles Gibbs
    June 19th, 2008 at 2:37 pm

    There is now a sitemap.xml file in your root directory.

    So http://example.wordpress.com/sitemap.xml

    or

    http://example.com/sitemap.xml for us domain mappers. ;)

    Be Happy@

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  91. Mark Shaw
    June 19th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    You guys are absolutely amazing. Thank you so much.

  92. windwhisperer
    June 19th, 2008 at 5:57 pm

    that’s awesome ! Thx
    j.

  93. kmpfurniture
    June 19th, 2008 at 6:22 pm

    Good news

  94. Origen
    June 19th, 2008 at 6:25 pm

    THANKS !

  95. tanekakoko
    June 19th, 2008 at 6:59 pm

    Thanks. Its great because some of my older posts are now getting traffic. Its nice to know that some-one other than Full Metal Alchemist fans are reading my posts! :)

  96. latestnewsheadlines
    June 19th, 2008 at 7:02 pm

    thanks buddy… but as per my knowledge this is not a new but a old concept. Neways seems that most people do not know about it.

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  98. Elsie
    June 19th, 2008 at 8:57 pm

    That’s totally cool!!!! Thank you much for this!!!! Awesome :)

  99. Rashid Faridi
    June 19th, 2008 at 9:11 pm

    GOOD.

  100. austyfrosty
    June 19th, 2008 at 10:46 pm

    Thats awesome!

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