I'm working on creating my first Joomla 1.6 Component and I'm following the Joomla documentation from: http://docs.joomla.org/Developing_a_Model-View-Controller_(MVC)_Component_for_Joomla!1.6_-_Part_01. I'm going to document as much as I can about how to create a component. First create a folder for your entire project. This is going to be the folder that you will zip up as the components to [...]
Well, after some investigating and using of Bing's webmaster tools, it looks like you can't use the same sitemap for Google, Yahoo and Bing. Actually, Yahoo and Google work fine using the same sitemap, but Bing does not like the <image:image> tag or the <video:video> tag. So, just a heads up, you will need to [...]
I have found, that in some circumstances, manually creating a sitemap is most useful. There are many packages out there that will automatically create sitemap's but I have found that they usually do not work properly for images and videos. If you just have a regular site, you could always use www.xml-sitemaps.com to create a [...]