Microsoft Bing posted a new blog post saying "for XML sitemaps, one of the most critical tags you can include in your sitemap is the "lastmod" tag." And it will become even more critical as Bing is ...

Fabrice Canel from Microsoft said that Microsoft tries to check your site's XML Sitemap file one per day. He said on Twitter "we attempt looking at sitemaps once a day." Fabrice added that "Sitemaps ...

Bing said it's increasing the size of sitemaps files and index size from 10MB to 50MB to accommodate the growing need for additional space in content. Webmasters can still compress their Sitemap files ...

Microsoft Bing will soon rely a lot more on the date you specify in the lastmod field within your XML sitemap for crawling. Fabrice Canel, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Bing said that ...

Bing Webmaster Tools introduced enhanced sitemap reporting features. The new features help webmasters improve site index coverage and resolve issues. Accurate, up-to-date sitemaps can boost site ...

WordPress version 6.5 now supports including the lastmod element within sitemaps files, which can help search engines understand which pieces of content are new or updated. This can help improve crawl ...