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. 😉
- June 16, 2008
- Features
WordPress.com News 
Great news. Thanks for the sitemaps feature
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I realized already yesterday – hopefully I’ll get some views each day now 😆
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Sounds very cool for an eclectic blog such as mine. Let’s see if visits go up…
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Great Feature. thanks. wordpress Rock!!
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Hurray! Thank you!
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Great Idea… Thanks..
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Wow..
Nice and awaited feature. Keep growing.
Best smile,
Zeezat
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Well why thank you, WordPress people! Y’all are awesome!
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cool
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Oh thank you. Keep up the good work.
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nice!!!
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now its great! 😀
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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.
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nice! very cool feature 😀
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Great!!!
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Thanks!
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Thank you very much!!! It’s cool new opportunity!
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nice )
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Excellent, congratulations!!!. Good news 🙂
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i´m on my way !
Just good stuff !
TX once again
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Great thanks a lot for this feature
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🙂
Nice nice…
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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?
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Darius, you don’t have to do a thing, a sitemap is automatically generated, enabled, and promoted for your blog.
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Nothing pretty, but useful nonetheless. Thanks, guys!
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Really nice and helpful! Thanks to you WordPress Team
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Good to Hear from wordpress again with a new Feature….
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Thanks for the good news and all the efforts!!
Indeed this is a great Monday!
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hi
thanks a lot
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Thanks a lot…
On more great feature!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ah, so that’s why I never had any visitors! (Only joking.) Thanks for another innovation.
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Awesome! 😀
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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.
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Thanks, good stuff. And good to know we have to do nothing 🙂
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Георги, you can exclude yourself from search engines under Settings > Privacy.
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Nice. Look forward to the attention.
You guys rock,
Dopey
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That’s interesting.
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cool
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O.K. 🙂
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Sounds interesting :D. Thank you on the update.
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Cools!! Another Great Job! Thanks
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That’s good. Using RSS feeds as sitemaps was not a piece of cake. Thanks 🙂
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Thank you!!! 🙂
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This is good news … thanks
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I like it 🙂
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Thanks for that. Highly appreciated.
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Simply fantastic…
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Great! Is there any way for us to have access to the file?
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Cool feature! Thanks, Nick!
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awesome!
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Really? their are site maps now. Oh cool. First one here to?
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Have to check
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Once again, WordPress.com shows that it is absolutely the best! Thanks!
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Nice Nikolay! Very nice!
Thanks!!!
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Very good idea!
Thanks.
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great surprise! thanks guys!
cap
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A good feature to have, thank you. 🙂
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🙂 great work!
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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?
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George, we’ve made the sitemaps auto-discoverable in the robots.txt feed.
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again …thank you …you guys & gals are the best
grantman
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Thanks Nick.
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Is it enabled by default?
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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!
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Thank You!
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Yeah! Good job guys!
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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…
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This is great!
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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.
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Great, look forward to positive results from more search engines!!
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Thanks you
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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. 😀
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That’s fantastic. What’s the address for it going to be?
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Great addition. Thanks.
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yay! gotta love something out there just doing it’s thing for ya!
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Lovely !! I like you guys!
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Thanks! We need all of the help we can get to achieve greater readership!!
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Great idea, thanks!
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So sweet! thanks!
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Does this apply retroactively to all of my prior posts or does it solely apply to posts from here on out?
Thanks
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Awesome feature! Thanks!
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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
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Thanks a lot
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Thanks!
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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! 😉
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Thanks, very useful.
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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.
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Sounds good to me. Keep on working.
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excellent!
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“The funny thing is that you don’t have to inform anybody, because we will do it automatically for you.”
Funny (:
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that is great news!!
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This is just awesome, great work!
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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!
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Thanks for the sitemaps!
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