Online Marketing | Search Engine Marketing | SEO | PushON blog » Ask http://blog.pushon.co.uk The Online Marketing People Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:31:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Sitemap Auto-discovery http://blog.pushon.co.uk/search-engine-optimisation-seo/sitemap-auto-discovery/ http://blog.pushon.co.uk/search-engine-optimisation-seo/sitemap-auto-discovery/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:11:01 +0000 Jamie Clouting http://blog.pushon.co.uk/2007/04/13/sitemap-auto-discovery/ Search EnginesWhilst there has been a nice interface for Google via Google Webmaster Central and more recently Yahoo via their Yahoo site explorer portal to submit xml sitemaps the other search engines of worth, ASK.com and Microsoft Live search have not provided such interfaces.

Although both ASK and Live announced they had adopted the sitemap protocol last year neither search engine provided an interface for webmasters to be able to submit sitemaps. All very annoying. It seems though they may have been holding out for sitemap auto-discovery which all 4 search engines this week have announced they will support going forward.

How Does Sitemap Auto-Discovery Work?

Well it’s all nice and simple, simply add,

Sitemap: <Sitemap_location>

to your robots.txt file.

For example:

Sitemap: <http://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml>

For anyone still interested in submitting sitemaps manually I have found a method today for submitting to ASK. Enter, http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml into your bowser address bar, where http://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml is the path to your sitemap.

For more information checkout the Ask Blog and the Yahoo Search Blog

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