Comments on: UK national newspapers neglecting sitemaps for better search indexing http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/04/24/uk-national-newspapers-neglecting-sitemaps-for-better-search-indexing/ Online journalism news Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:39:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Laura Oliver http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/04/24/uk-national-newspapers-neglecting-sitemaps-for-better-search-indexing/comment-page-1/#comment-5011 Laura Oliver Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:15:13 +0000 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/04/24/uk-national-newspapers-neglecting-sitemaps-for-better-search-indexing/#comment-5011 My point was not meant to suggest that the two cannot be implemented simultaneously, but that there are newspaper websites using neither one nor the other. Questions then need to be asked of those titles not looking to either protocol - what are their strategies re: search engines? My point was not meant to suggest that the two cannot be implemented simultaneously, but that there are newspaper websites using neither one nor the other.

Questions then need to be asked of those titles not looking to either protocol – what are their strategies re: search engines?

]]> By: Laura Oliver http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/04/24/uk-national-newspapers-neglecting-sitemaps-for-better-search-indexing/comment-page-1/#comment-5010 Laura Oliver Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:13:32 +0000 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/04/24/uk-national-newspapers-neglecting-sitemaps-for-better-search-indexing/#comment-5010 On behalf of Mark Bide, ACAP project director, who emailed me the following: "The key point here is that Sitemaps has nothing whatsoever to do with permissions – it is all about navigation for the crawlers. It really isn’t appropriate to contrast Sitemaps with ACAP, as if implementing one in way precluded a website from implementing another. The two specifications are entirely complementary." On behalf of Mark Bide, ACAP project director, who emailed me the following:

“The key point here is that Sitemaps has nothing whatsoever to do with permissions – it is all about navigation for the crawlers. It really isn’t appropriate to contrast Sitemaps with ACAP, as if implementing one in way precluded a website from implementing another. The two specifications are entirely complementary.”

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