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
14 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
Thank you for your advice, I have been going crazy.
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!
thanks - really helpful.
all my sites not submitted.
cheers!
Alltho sitemap.xml is now a standard we shouldn't disregard natural indexing. Because most of the online sitemap generators do not allow more than 500-1000 URLs in the fitemap (for free) I've made my own online sitemap generator which allows up to 20.000 URLs and it's free of charge. You can find it at: sitemap-xml.net
I jusr want to know how we can generate xml sitemaps for blog and submite them.
the live webmaster tool is good i just added url there
can anyone tell me about SEO
how can i generate more treffic to my website
Regards
i like it your post thanks
Is there any other possibility to submit sitemap. Only through webmasters tools.
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