Important Tools/Software for Online Stores – updated

These tools/software are very important for any on-line stores:

Goolge Analytics (http://www.google.com/analytics/)
Goolge Webmastertool (http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/)
Google Product Search (http://base.google.com/)
Add and submit Site Map
Add SEO url
Submit url

  • Google -http://www.google.com/addurl/
  • Yahoo – https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
  • MSN Live Search – http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx

They should be implemented as soon as feasible.

Add Sitemap to Robots.txt (Google, Yahoo, MSN SiteMap Auto-Discovery)

While looking for information on how to submit sitemap to MSN, I can across this piece of information from Yahoo blog. To add sitemap to robots.txt, just add the following line:

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml

In case you have multiple Sitemaps, you can point to your sitemap index
Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemapindex.xml

To do this, simply add the following line to your robots.txt file:

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml

Please provide the complete URL for your Sitemap on this line. We will pick it up wherever you put it in your robots.txt file. This directive is not specific to user-agent. If you have multiple Sitemaps, you can point to your Sitemap index file on this line.

It is good to know that one does need to manually submit site map to Google, Yahoo and MSN. I hope this is going to be the standard very soon.