Sitemap is the map of your website.
It represents the structure of your site. It gives a pictorial view of all the
links on your site. Search engines find it easy to crawl and index the web
pages through sitemap. Having proper sitemap submitted to search engines, you
are on your way to better SEO and better revenue.
Here I will guide you on how to submit sitemaps to three
major search engines, Google, yahoo and Bing for Wordpress bloggers. You can
submit sitemap to other search engines the same way.
For Wordpress
Bloggers:
Sitemap
for wordpress is submitted by copying “sitemap .xml” file.
The format is:
But sitemap.xml may be the complete path to sitemap.xml
file.
For example if your sitemap file resides in wordpress
subdirectory then sitemap format may be
The path wordpress/sitemap.xml is actually what you
have to submit to search engines.
Submit sitemap to Google:
Click the add a
site button and enter URL of your site.
Then go to site
configuration and click sitemap.
At submit sitemap,
enter the complete path to sitemap file and click submit.
Submit sitemap to yahoo:
Go to yahoo site
explorer at
And sign in with your yahoo, Gmail or Facebook id.
Add your site.
Verify by uploading the html file to root directory.
Under submit your site feed, enter the complete path to sitemap file
and click submit.
Submit sitemap to Bing:
Simply paste following URL in your browser’s
address bar.
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?sitemap=www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml
And
replace the "mysite" with the complete URL of your sitemap.
For example
if your sitemap resides in wordpress subdirectory then:
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?sitemap=www.mysite.com/wordpress/sitemap.xml
/sitemap.xml
Upon submission you will receive the message:
Thanks
for submitting your sitemap.
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