How To Submit Sitemap For Wordpress

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:

http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml

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

http://www.mysite.com/wordpress/sitemap.xml

The path wordpress/sitemap.xml is actually what you have to submit to search engines.

Submit sitemap to Google:

Go to Google webmaster tools at https://www.google.com/webmasters and sign in with your Gmail id.

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

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

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.

How To Submit Sitemap For Blogspot Bloggers

Sitemap is the map of your website. 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 on how to submit sitemaps to three major search engines, Google, yahoo and Bing for BlogSpot bloggers.

For BlogSpot bloggers:

BlogSpot bloggers can submit sitemap using RSS or Atom feed. But atom is recommended. Simply copy the following code and paste it in sitemap submission address bar.

• http://www.mysite.com/atom.xml?redirect=false

Or if your site contains more than 100 pages, use following code.

• http://www.mysite.com /atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100

Replace “mysite” by your URL.

For example:

• http://www.adsenseadwordss.blogspot.com /atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100

1. Submit Sitemap to Google:

• Go to Google webmaster tools at https://www.google.com/webmasters and sign in with your Gmail id.
• 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 above URL and submit.

2. Submit Sitemap to Yahoo:

• Go to yahoo site explorer at http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ and sign in with your yahoo, Gmail or Facebook id.
• Add your site.
• Verify using the second option of adding Meta tags.
• Under submit your site feed, enter the above URL and submit.

3. 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. Upon submission you will receive the message:
• Thanks for submitting your sitemap.