Although for most of the bloggers Google is the main source of traffic among all the search engines, but it doesn't mean that you can ignore other search engines like Yahoo, MSN Live and Ask.com
In case of Google, once you submit the sitemap, the process is quite automated and Google starts indexing your blog frequently. But for Yahoo, MSN and Ask you have to manually ping them occasionally. So here's what you have to do to submit your sitemap to these lazy Search engines:
Copy and paste your sitemaps in a text file:
1. http://bloggerstop.net/atom.xml
2. http://bloggerstop.net/rss.xml
Remember to replace the text in blue with your own blog's url.
Now in the address bar of your Internet browser (IE, Firefox, Opera etc.), paste these lines one by one and hit enter:
Submit Sitemap to Yahoo! :
http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=SitemapWriter&url=http://bloggerstop.net/atom.xml?redirect=false
http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http://bloggerstop.net/atom.xml?redirect=false
Submit Sitemap to Windows Live:
http://webmaster.live.com/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://bloggerstop.net/atom.xml
Submit Sitemap to Ask.com:
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://bloggerstop.net/atom.xml
NOTE: Change the links in RED, with your own Sitemaps (and instead of atom.xml you may use rss.xml too).
Although Yahoo! doesn't guarantee to include your blog in to it's directory, but of course there's harm in pinging it once in a while...
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*UPDATE: Now you may also submit your blog's sitemap to BING, along with your blog's url:
www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://bloggerstop.net/atom.xml
24 comments:
nice info.. thanks for sharing
Great article...
done!
wow....Great...I neva thought submitting sitemaps could be this easier.........
thanxxxxxx dear
thanks a lot.very good work
thank you.
Nice Post !!!!
freesoftwarehunt.blogspot.com
thanks, i have done it
http://moviezmobile.blogspot.com
thanx a lot..
<span><span>http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=<span style="color: red;">http://bloggerstop.net/atom.xml</span></span>
this gives error me like...
<Error>
The following errors were detected:
<Message>limit exceeded</Message>
</Error>
This is my blog..
</span><span></span>http://www.funevil,blogspot.com/<span></span>
Yeah the error seems to be something at Yahoo itself...poor yahoo...full of errors !
I get the same mistake for yahoo.com,
I tried posting from my server and from my computer, but still the error shows up.
anyone knows if it's still worth to post in that case ?
thanks,,good job www.nuevayoresblogs.com
the yahoo one is not working, you know any other method to submit to yahoo ?
www.h4king.net
wow, great. thanks
"but of course there's harm in pinging it once in a while..."
There is harm or no harm? confirm it once please.. thanks.
Absolutely no harm !!
Blogger's Google and Google's Blogger...let them ping each other as much as they want :)
It's not your bandwidth being wasted, so all's good and nothing bad for us !
I got errors, i think these doesn't apply anymore?
Yeah Yahoo has started giving errors (in fact it is like this since months), but others are still fine and working.
hai,
I am a daily reader of your blog and i have bookmarked this blog, but this is my first post. first of all really good blog you have really helpful for many bloggers. Thanks for the good tutorials and hacks you've made. today i stuck on this post nd have a suggestion, this suggestion only applies for whom they are burn their feeds at feedburner.com. If you have submit your feed/atom as said above they shall not work because the feed is redirecting to feedburner.com. here is a simple hack for this issue. Submit your url like this - http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=SitemapWriter&url=http://yourdomain.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=50&max-results=100
in this hack it will not redirect your atom/rss. If somebody posted this hack before please ignore this comment.
thanks again sai...
I'm so glad and thankful to you, that your first comment in this blog has helped me and other bloggers.
Although I was using the same trick (redirect=false) in the google sitemap submission, but never tried it here, now thanks to you it is doing the job here for yahoo too.
Cheers!
Hi,
Anyone else notice that Bing changed its interface and that the new Bing interface does not seem to have a sitemap submission facility anymore? seems to have been dropped, or maybe I am looking in the wrong place? Anybody found a way around this
Another method (may be better) explained in this blog http://weluvblogging.blogspot.com . With yahoo explorer and bing tool box , you can control it as in google webmaster tool. Have a look.
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