How to Submit your XML Site Map to Google, Yahoo & MSN
Submitting Your XML Site Map
Today we conclude our series on How to Build an XML sitemap for Google, Yahoo, and MSN. After creating your XML sitemap using a free online site map builder or site map software, you’ll want to upload it to your web server. For most users, this will mean simply adding the file “sitemap.xml” to the root directory of your web site. The result should be viewable in your browser.
For the final step, you’ll want to submit your sitemap to the search engines:
Google Webmaster Tools
First, you’ll need a Google Account to sign in (if you don’t already have one). Then you’ll need to prove ownership of any sites that you’d like to add sitemaps to. You can do this by uploading meta tags or a unique file to your site that they will provide. Once you are verified as the site owner, you can simply submit the URL of your XML sitemap. In addition to submitting your sitemap, this site provides a host of information including any crawl errors, pages with the highest PageRank, the top search queries for your site, and so much more.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/
Yahoo! Site Explorer
As with Google Webmaster Tools, you’ll need to authenticate yourself as owner of any website you wish to manage. Yahoo will provide you with a file to upload to your web server. Once authenticated you can upload your XML sitemap.
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
MSN - Bing Webmaster Center
Just like the others, you’ll need to authenticate yourself as owner of any website you wish to manage with your MSN/Bing/Live login. Bing will provide you with a file to upload to your web server. Once authenticated you can upload your XML sitemap.
http://www.bing.com/webmaster
Today we conclude our series on How to Build an XML sitemap for Google, Yahoo, and MSN. After creating your XML sitemap using a free online site map builder or site map software, you’ll want to upload it to your web server. For most users, this will mean simply adding the file “sitemap.xml” to the root directory of your web site. The result should be viewable in your browser.
For the final step, you’ll want to submit your sitemap to the search engines:
Google Webmaster Tools
First, you’ll need a Google Account to sign in (if you don’t already have one). Then you’ll need to prove ownership of any sites that you’d like to add sitemaps to. You can do this by uploading meta tags or a unique file to your site that they will provide. Once you are verified as the site owner, you can simply submit the URL of your XML sitemap. In addition to submitting your sitemap, this site provides a host of information including any crawl errors, pages with the highest PageRank, the top search queries for your site, and so much more.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/
Yahoo! Site Explorer
As with Google Webmaster Tools, you’ll need to authenticate yourself as owner of any website you wish to manage. Yahoo will provide you with a file to upload to your web server. Once authenticated you can upload your XML sitemap.
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
MSN - Bing Webmaster Center
Just like the others, you’ll need to authenticate yourself as owner of any website you wish to manage with your MSN/Bing/Live login. Bing will provide you with a file to upload to your web server. Once authenticated you can upload your XML sitemap.
http://www.bing.com/webmaster
Labels: seo
posted by Larry Weaver @
How to Submit your XML Site Map to Google, Yahoo & MSN: 11/22/2006
11 Comments:
In MSN, we can add the location of the sitemap files in the box "Type the URL of your homepage"
For example,
http://examplesite.exampledomain.com/sitemap_index.xml
Is it correct or ......
Please explain to me.
You may be interested to submit Ask.com
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A//www.your sitemap here.xml
Hi, I have a forum for JOBS in latin america, and I used the MOD sitemap for SMF to automatically generate the sitemap.
here is the file:
http://empleo.wadooa.com/sitemap.xml
bye.
Thank you for your advice, I have been going crazy.
I've been told in the past that the way to submit to MSN is by using moreover.com as a back door. It is pretty much the same as submitting to ask.
Just copy, paste and replace the "YourDomain.com..." with your xml sitemap url.
http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=http://YourDomain.com/sitemap.xml
thanks for info guys. Very useful..
www.mp3-dash.com
Thank you very much for this post.
And thanks for tips about ASK and moreover.com :)
Regards,
Polski Sklep
I am very familiar with Google sitemap. But, your post is really great and make me aware about Yahoo and Bing XML sitemap.
Thanks, just used these tips for a new website I did for a client
Thank you very much.Your article is very informative. There is also a good one here http://www.steveanastasiadis.com/seo/xml-site-map.html for more information.
Yahoo make me desprate, while google index running well why yahoo not!
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