Hi all, Does anyone know do you have to submit your sitemap through google webmaster interface or will google use a sitemap that you have just pinged through the ping interface? (Some of my sites have several sections in different subdomains and I would have to submit all the subdomains separately and that is a pain in the ass)
A sitemap you made for your users, and linked to from your main page (and elsewhere, presumably) will be found by google anyhow - though I'm not sure pinging will do any good for google. The sitemap that gets added to google sitemaps is a page made specifically for search-engines, not for users. So it would not be linked from your main page. That type of sitemap is mainly interesting for sites with a lot of generated content, like online stores and stuff like that.