Submit Sitemap to Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Ask.com

Submit Sitemap to Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Ask.com: "A sitemap is a list of links which you want to be crawled by search engines. Submitting a sitemap can help to ensure that the important search engines crawl and index your pages, although it does not guarantee it. In this post I explain how to create and submit your sitemaps to important search engines. "

SUBMITTING THE SITEMAP TO SEARCH ENGINES

You can submit sitemaps via webmaster tools or via ping. We'll first look at the webmaster tools. They give finer control over crawling and provide tools for analyzing the performance of your site.

You need to have an account and authenticate (prove that you are the site owner) by putting a meta link in your html code. The links to do this are:
1. google webmasters
2. bing webmaster
3. yahoo site explorer

The other mechanism for submitting sitemaps is via ping. A ping is a mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated. I list here the ping servers for google, yahoo, bing, ask.com, and moreover.com. Substitute the last part for your sitemap link.

• http://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=http://YourSite.com/sitemap.xml
  
• http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http://YourSite.com/sitemap.xml
  
• http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?sitemap=http://YourSite.com/sitemap.xml
  
• http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http://YourSite.com/sitemap.xml
  
• http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://YourSite.com/sitemap.xml
  
• http://www.moreover.com/ping?sitemap=http://YourSite.com/sitemap.xml
  

Submitting a sitemap is no garantee that search machine will index all pages. Additionally it can be useful to link your articles among themselves and to get many inbound links. You might want to read about google specific META tags and META tag suggestions for blogger.
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