Monday, 12 August 2013

How to submit a Sitemap to Google, Yahoo, and Bing (MSN)



If you want that your website or blog should be crawled by search engine like Google, Yahoo and Bing then it is necessary to submit a sitemap to these search engines. If you don’t have a sitemap then you can create it here (http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/). So to submit your website’s or blog’s sitemap to these search engines follow these steps:

Google
  1. Log in to Webmaster Tools (http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/).
  2. Now  on the Webmaster Tools home page, at first click on the "Add a site" button after that enter your URL. Now Follow the instructions on the page to verify your website/blog.
  3. After  your site has been verified, click on "Site configuration" in the left menu to display more options then select "Sitemaps". Click on the "Submit a Sitemap" button and fill in the sitemap location with "sitemap.xml".
Yahoo
  1. Open the site explorer . now enter your site url in the yellow "My Sites" box on the right. Sign in.
  2. Now Your site name will appear with a yellow dot on the right indicating "New" status. Click on the dot to begin the authentication process.
  3. After authentication, click on the site name and select "Feeds" from the left menu and fill in the sitemap location with "sitemap.xml".
Bing (MSN)
  1. At first Log in to the Webmaster Center (http://www.bing.com/webmaster).
  2. After that Enter  your website/blog url and sitemap location. After that proceed with the instructions given on the page to authenticate your site.
 In this way you can submit sitemap to search engines.

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