Submit Sitemaps to 4 Major Search Engines

When you upload your new site to a server, you probably won't see an increase in traffic to your site for several weeks. This waiting period while the search engines get around to indexing your site pages can seem like an eternity. To help kick start this process a little, here are some simple guidelines for telling 4 major search engines that you exist.

I. Create your Sitemaps -

1. Go to http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ to generate your xml and ror site maps. Note: www.domain.com is not the same as domain.com. Use the address that matches your Google account. It goes without saying that you must change 'example.com' in the following link examples to your actual domain name.
   
   
2. Download your newly created sitemaps to your hard drive and then use an FTP client to upload them to your website's root folder (where your index page is located). If you wish to modify your sitemaps, use a plain text editor such as NotePad or NoteTab.

II. Submit Sitemap to Google -

1. Go to Google Webmaster Tools www.Google.com/webmasters/tools/
   
   
2. Log-in with your Google name and password (same as your Google email if you have one).
   
   
3. Submit the url that matches your account:
• http://example.com/sitemap.xml or
• http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml

Submissions are usually verified within a few hours although indexing may take 1-4 weeks.

III. Submit Sitemap to Yahoo -

1. Go to https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
   
   
2. Log in with your Yahoo name and password (same as your Yahoo email if you have one).
   
   
3. Once you log in, you’ll see two choices:
   
• Submit a Website or a Webpage – skip this.
• Submit a Site Feed – this is what you want.
  
  
4. Submit the url:
   
• http://www.example.com/ror.xml

IV. Submit Sitemap to MSN -
In your browser, paste the following url into the address bar and hit enter:

• http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=http://www.example.com/sitemap.ror

Indexing will usually occur in 2-3 weeks.

V. Submit Sitemap to ASK -
In your browser, paste the following url into the address bar and hit enter:

• http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A//www.example.com/sitemap.xml

That's all there is to it. Now sit back and wait patiently for the spiders to crawl your site pages.