Ping your sitemaps to the major search engines

by admin on October 13, 2009
in SEO

Let the major search engines know about updates to your site by pasting the links below in your browser address bar and substituting the address of your sitemap.

Google

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=WWW.YOUR-SITE.COM/SITEMAP.XML

Microsoft Bing

http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=WWW.YOUR-SITE.COM/SITEMAP.XML

Yahoo

http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=WWW.YOUR-SITE.COM/SITEMAP.XML

Ask.com

http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=WWW.YOUR-SITE.COM/SITEMAP.XML

Moreover

http://api.moreover.com/ping?sitemap=WWW.YOUR-SITE.COM/SITEMAP.XML

Then just hit enter and the engine will be notified of your new sitemap.

You can also resubmit website sitemaps from within the Webmaster Tools section of each Search engine.

Do you know of any others that should be on this list? Comment it below.

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