As most of us know, submissions of websites and articles to search engines or site indexers helps in bringing in more new visitors to the site. For those of us who did it manually without the help of some money-making or email-harvesting ‘professionals’, I am sure we can all agree that this is a tedious job. There will be some that will only require a simple URL, while others will only work with a sitemap of the site. Some requires sitemap in XML, some in plain text, some in ROR whatever it is, you name it, they got it.

Aptly named site or URL submission, not only does the site URL needs to be submitted to these indexing sites, the webmasters themselves will need to be submissive to the all kinds of ‘demands’ from these search engines lest the site is not indexed. But of course, these are just the hidden ‘costs’ of the free services.

Well, going straight to the point, here’s a simple guide which hopefully will be able to make site and article submissions less painful.

Generating a Sitemap

The first thing to do would be to have a standard-compliant sitemap ready. There are numerous free sitemap generators online but not all generates standard sitemaps. XML Sitemaps happens to be one of those generating sitemaps in accordance to the standard sitemap protocol and it is free.

For more information on the standard sitemap protocol, visit Sitemaps.org

Submitting the Website

Webmaster Page: https://google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/
URL Submission: http://google.com/addurl/
Sitemap Ping: http://google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=[Your Sitemap URL]
(eg: http://google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=http://chewybyte.net/sitemap.xml)

URL Submission: https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
Sitemap Ping: http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=[Your Sitemap URL]
(eg: http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http://chewybyte.net/sitemap.xml)

Site Feed Ping: http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=[Your Site Feed URL]
(eg: http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=http://www.chewybyte.net/feed)

Webmaster Page: http://webmaster.live.com/
URL Submission: http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx
Sitemap Ping: http://webmaster.live.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=[Your Sitemap URL]
(eg: http://webmaster.live.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://chewybyte.net/sitemap.xml)

Webmaster Page: http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml
Sitemap Ping URL: http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=[Your Sitemap URL]
(eg: http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://chewybyte.net/sitemap.xml)

When you ping a search or indexing site, you’re actually telling the site that certain pages or articles had been updated or added. In the case of sitemap pings, it is just an easy way to inform the search or indexing sites that the sitemap file had been updated.

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