An easy and fast way of submitting websites to search engines was announced yesterday on PubCon conference. From now 3 major search engines – Google, Yahoo and MSN support Sitemaps 0.90 format. They expect it would result in search results quality and freshness improvement and better representation of sites in search indices.

Sitemap protocols make it convenient to submit and update all site URLs, notify search engines of changes or new pages. The sitemap can be submitted to any site that has adopted the protocol and though for now it’s Google, Yahoo and MSN, other search engines are also invited to use this system.

All and detailed information about Sitemaps could be found on a new Sitemaps.org site. But in general I should say that if you already have a Google sitemap you shouldn’t change anything as it is supported by Yahoo and MSN from now. The format was not changed just now the sitemap submission option is available in Yahoo and MSN also.