XML Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to tell search engines about pages on their site that may be crawled by their robots. As we all know, more crawling from search engines , more traffic to your site .

I will now teach you on how to submit your sitemap to Google, Yahoo ! , MSN and Ask.Com.

If you’re a wordpress user , you will need this plugin Google Sitemap Generator to create your sitemap. Download it, read the readme.txt , upload and activate it. Now that you’ve had your sitemap , it’s time to submit it to 4 faymous search engines.

Submitting Sitemap to Google

First let’s do it with Google.

Register yourself with google , add your website then verfiy that you indeed own them. The verifiaction is achieved by adding a html file or adding a meta tag. I suggest you do the adding thingy. Then in dashboard – manage , click on your website. click on sitemap and submit your xml files.

Submitting Sitemap to Yahoo

Go to

Login with your yahoo id , add your site , verify it just like what you just did on google . After that , go back and click on manage, add your xml file and classify it as web feeds.

Submitting Sitemap to MSN

With msn it’s easier . You’ll just need to ping it like this this ;

copy that on your firefox and press enter .. your done.

Submitting Sitemap to Ask.Com

Same as MSN , all you need to do is just add your xml link ;

And now you’re officially known to Google, Yahoo, Msn and Ask.Com .