For all of you who have your own blogs or website…

YAHOO and MSN Search have announced that they will support the popular format for XML-Sitemaps which was invented by Google in 2005.

In an encouraging act of collaboration, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft announced tonight that they will all begin using the same Sitemaps protocol to index sites around the web. Now based at Sitemaps.org, the system instructs web masters on how to install an XML file on their servers that all three engines can use to track updates to pages. This should make it easier to get your pages indexed in a simple and standardized way. People who use Google Sitemaps don’t need to change anything, those maps will now be indexed by Yahoo and Microsoft.
Source: TechCrunch

“Sitemap Creator”will create a Google Sitemap from your Blog and it’s Posts. This will help you get every page in your Blog listed in the Google

To install Plugins just copy the downloaded Plugin to your Wordpress Plugins directory. Then you can access their features in the Wordpress admin panel. The plugin directory is yourhost.com/yourwordpressdirectory/wp-content/plugins

Arne has updated the xml-namespace definitions in the new beta version of his XML-Sitemap Generator for WordPress Plugin to the new sitemaps.org standard.

Yahoo has already updated their Site Explorer so you can submit your sitemap to YAHOO and Google. MSN is still doing internal testing and should be on board soon.

If you’d like to read more about Sitemaps