How do you submit your website to Ask.com?

I've been trying to figure out how to submit my website to Ask.com but haven't successfully done so. Can someone please advise me how to do this.

 

Try to submit your website XML sitemap using the following link:
http : // submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=yousitemap.xml

Good luck!

 

Hi,
the info above isn't quite correct sorry. If you ping that with your url in the sitemap place you get a google search. The follow is the correct ping URL..
http: //submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A//www.dream2live.com/sitemap_dream.xml
Just remove the - "w w w.dream2live.com/sitemap_dream.xml" - and place your sitemap URL in it's place without the http://
Also I have had to put extra space in places so I can place this reply (I can place live links)

have a great 2008

 

I mean I can't place a live links as yet

 

what is the meaning of this? still confuse

 

To get your site indexed in the Ask.com search engine.

 

ask.com one of the best i think

 

For more info check their faq; http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml#23

 

I followed the instructions by friend "garyak" but seems nothing happened? how would I do that ping thing?

thanks.

ex. http: //submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://jimerston.com/?feed=atom

 

I followed the instructions by "garyak" and "pearls" But The result is "The address is not valid"

 

I submiited last month,but I find it is not been crawled..

 

Hello crusch, ravemaster and Forumdirectory

I think that follow the bobchrist instruction, it may be helpful to you.

 

Submission won't help you much. Once your site is old enough you will find yourself included in Ask

 

Yeah, Ask just seems to index very slow.

 

it take awhile before you can be index into ask.com, be patient...

 

Link [Here]:

http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/add_search_to_site.shtml

Code (markup):

Reference:

http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml#23

Code (markup):

 

Ask is a crawler, meaning the main results are compiled by spidering the web. No need to submit to Ask as they will eventually find your site.

 

I agree, it takes a while for ask.com to crawl your site. The only way to speed this process up is to generate a sitemap file and submit it ask.com.

http://www.usscholarshipguide.org
http://www.feelfrazzled.com

 

since ask.com writes in above sitmap submission REPLY page

"....... Ask.com is a proud participant in the Sitemaps via robots.txt protocol . ...... "
that most likely also means that ask.com is supporting the

sitemapindex.xml
file scheme as used by Google ( and as published in your robots.txt )


ask.com is botting regularly once you are in.
needless to say that you of course have your own RSS feed and submitted it to all known major RSS directories and ping all RSS directories ... to more easily be found for each new article published ...

 

why its not working at all with me?