So, You'd Like To Map Your Site

7 Jun 2005

I've been on a big "there's nothing new under the sun" kick lately, so let's take a look at Infoseek's sitelist.txt proposal from 1997, and deepleap.xml, from DeepLeap back in 2000. Or hey, there's HTML's LINK, which lets you describe relationships that can encompass a lot of a site's content. And hey, there might even be formats for describing a feed of a site's content and when it gets updated.

Posted on Tuesday, June 7, 2005 at 7:37 PM

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2 Comments

...and don't forget RDF Site Summary!

(sitemaps2rss.xsl etc at http://dannyayers.com/archives/2005/06/03/google-sitemap/ )

Author Profile Page Danny Ayers | June 8, 2005 3:51 AM | Reply

Where's the "smarmy" button on this site? I'd like to turn it off.

Author Profile Page Ezra Cooper | June 11, 2005 11:51 AM | Reply

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