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New study proves sitemaps are better than no sitemaps.

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

A recently published study looked at 500 Million URLs that were seen both by sitemaps and using \’natural discovery\’ methods. Of this sample of URLs, the study revealed that 77% of the URLs were first seen by Google on a sitemap! http://www2009.eprints.org/100/1/p991.pdf To put this as simple as possible… use sitemaps if you have any [...]

Cross Domain sitemaps. What does cross-submission mean?

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Cross Domain sitemaps are located on one domain, but mapping a different domain. For example, you may decide to place your sitemaps from xyz.com over at abc.com. In the past, this was not allowed and would generate an error. This news means BIG things for AutoMapIt customers since FTP is no longer a necessity… you [...]

AutoMapIt Crawlers saves you bandwidth checking your Last-Modified headers by using If-Modified-Since

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

AutoMapIt now uses If-Modified-Since headers with the crawlers. What this means for you is that pages that haven\’t been updated since the last time this system crawled your website won\’t need to be loaded again. This saves bandwidth and means faster crawls of your website. Google has used these headers when requesting your pages for [...]

AutoMapIt Scores Another \”You Saw It Here First\” for Dynamic URL Rewriting!

Friday, August 24th, 2007

Long time subscribers of AutoMapIt have seen a few of the tools that I provide go into the mainstream search engines in one way or another. I like to think of it as a testament to my staying a step or two ahead of the search engines and designing tools to help keep you, the [...]

Live Help Support System

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

AutoMapIt has always been about unparalleled service. I have just added live support chat from Help Center Live to the site that will help out on specific pages that usually require some form of assistance. This is in addition to the email support, a help-desk ticketing system, and the forums that have been around for [...]