According to the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog, the users now no longer have to specify the Sitemap file type in order to submit a Sitemap to Google! The search engine will now automatically determine as to what type of data is being submitted… In short – Sitemap submission has now become easier!

Part of what makes the web so interesting is that there are so many different kinds of content out there. Do you use videos on your website? If so, send us a Video Sitemap file so that we can send you visitors to those videos! Do you host source-code samples? Submit a Code Search Sitemap! Here are the various kinds of Sitemap files that Google supports at the moment:

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When is the last time you stopped to think about the health of your feed?

Maybe it’s time to head over to the Feed Validator and ensure it’s in peek performance. (more…)

I’ve blogged before about how xmlFormat() is a bit buggy.

While it will remove most characters, including “high ascii” characters in the range of 128-255, it will gleefully ignore other high ascii characters, for example, character 8220 which is the funky Microsoft Word quote.

Unfortunately it looks like the same code used for xmlFormat is used to escape text when you create feeds with CFFEED. (more…)