Yahoo lists XML Sitemap in SERPs
Posted: Sun 05/20/2007 by ramiroLooking at the logs of a Drupal site I just noticed that Yahoo lists XML Sitemaps in SERPs. On that site the XML Sitemap Drupal module is installed, which automatically generates an XML Sitemap from your content and if you wish also includes the category pages. There are some other quite useful configuration options the module offers and it can be set to write log messages in Drupal's watchdog table.
That's where I noticed Yahoo's misbehavior. A Yahoo search with only four search results included that XML Sitemap. WTF is this good for? This is a completely useless search result for 99.9% of the human users. Robots can find the location of the sitemap in the robots.txt file. That should be enough information for your developers.
What bothers me is that requesting the sitemap consumes quite a bit of bandwidth and RAM on the server side and takes quite long time for the user to be downloaded only to see something he most likely didn't want to see.
So please Yahoo stop listing XML sitemaps on your SERPs!
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