Ok Everyone go to www.sitemaps.org three big search engines agreed to join standards about sitemaps. Thank god. Posted at the official google blog.

Thanks FL, I was just about to post this link

http://news.com.com/Google,+Yahoo,+M...3-6136041.html

From http://www.sitemaps.org/faq.html, I particularly appreciate this

Q. My site has tens of millions of URLs; can I somehow submit only those that have changed recently?

A. You can list the URLs that change frequently in a small number of Sitemaps and then use the lastmod tag in your Sitemap index file to identify those Sitemap files. Search engines can then incrementally crawl only the changed Sitemaps.

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Great info Mert....Thanks

...and your right, Doc. That is a solid development.

Best to both of you.

Eric

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