XML Sitemap Submission

I spent sometime to create a XML Sitemap for my Business directory website: www.sapujagat.com I already submitted the same to Google Sitemap as I followed their protocol. It is approved. I would like to achieve the most with this. Which other Search Engines can I submit this Sitemap to? I also have robots.txt for Search Engines.

 

i think yahoo has it here https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites

 

yes this one is for Yahoo..

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites

 

you don't need to submit the sitemap.
The bots that conform to the protocol will check your robots.txt for your sitemap url.
All you need to do is add this line to the top of your robots.txt
(replace example. com with your website)

Sitemap: http: // www . example . com/sitemap.xml
or if you use a compressed sitemap to conserve bandwidth
Sitemap: http: // www . example . com/sitemap.xml.gz

(had to add spaces because of my posting restrictions)

 

This is true as long as you have updated your robots.txt properly

 

This sitemaps tutorial shows how to use your robots.txt to automatically let search engines know about your xml sitemap

 

Yahoo - http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/

ASK - http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml
( e.g. mine - http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.goshopuk.net/sitemap.xml )

MSN - http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=http://yourdomain.com/yoursitemap.xml
(e.g. mine - http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=http://goshopuk.net/sitemap.xml )

poplarman - http://www.goshopuk.net/

 

you forgot google

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

 

MSN has recently launched MSN webmaster like Google webmaster tool. You can also submit .xml sitemap in msn webmaster .
http://webmaster.live.com/

 

Yes, I think Yahoo and Live (http://webmaster.live.com/) should be as your consideration....

 

i already mention http://webmaster.live.com above

 

You can find more info here

 

Ty guys. I would try them.

 

Hi- I just wrote a SEO article on this on my SEO Blog - but basically as said by someone else earlier you can just place the URL of your sitemap in your robots.txt file and the SE's will find it.

 

do you put allow or follow on robots.txt for sitemap.xml ? can you paste the syntax?

 

If you want to add sitemap.xml in your robots.txt..you do not need to allow or deny anything..just paste your sitemap url in the last of your robots.txt for autodiscovery..like

Sitemap: www[dot]yourdomain[dot]com/sitemap.xml