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Posted By: Sebastian 254 days ago
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A while ago I've staged a public SEO test, asking whether the 401 HTTP response code prevents from search engine indexing or not. Guess which search engine doesn't behave ...
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from sza 253 days ago #
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All the other search engines got the sitemap submission of the test URL too, but none of them fell for it.

Yahoo used to have a sitemap-like file called urllist.txt that could be submitted to them. Both Yahoo and Google indexed my urllist.txt even though there was no link pointing to it.

It's no better than indexing a sitemap.xml file. It has as much value for humans as a sitemap file. None.


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