How to submit Your Sitemap to Bing/Google/Yahoo
How to submit Your Sitemap to Bing/Google/Yahoo
Sitemap is a simple ways to let search engines know about your blog’s posts. Since we tend to forget adding our site maps to search engines except Google, I wanted to make you life a little easier by explaining how you can submit your website’s sitemap to all the major search engines. But first,
How does Sitemap work?
The only way a search engine knows about your websites content when they crawl your website. That’s why all the major search engines send out Search Engine robots to crawl the web and to discover new content. Once the content is found then search engines download html content of the page and store in their database to display as a search result. And all the search engine crawlers follow links that are given to them in terms of sitemap. And that’s why; everyone MUST submit his or her websites sitemap to all the search engines. It is almost like help those engines to discover pages with newer, fresher and better contents that you website or blog has to offer.
How you can submit sitemap to Search Engines?
It’s amazing that how sometime we forget to submit our websites into all the major search engines. There are three major search engines and fortunately all of them allow webmasters to submit any sitemap for free. The following are the three links that you can use
- Google Webmaster Tools:
Need a gmail account.
Link: www.google.com/webmasters/ - Yahoo Site Explorer:
Need a Yahoo account
Link: www.siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com - Bing Webmaster Center:
Need a windows account
Link: www.bing.com/webmaster
One thing to keep in mind that there are two types of Sitemap that we can have for our websites
- XML sitemap – For Search Engines web crawlers
- HTML sitemap – For human
It is preferred that webmaster submit a XML sitemap to all major search engines for easy discovery of your pages. And the big guy Google and young boy Bing preferred a XML sitemap. Read through ” Use XML Sitemap for Better Google Indexing ” for detailed information. Having said that, I know that since Google is the biggest buy in the block, we tend to do everything for Google. But sometime, it is wise not to forget about the little guys also. Especially if you are into SEO and are trying to get a better ranking for your blog, every little things count. Any contradictory thoughts ??
Filed Under: Blogging • Search Engine Optimization • WordPress
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i am using both Bing and Google and i think both search engines give relevant search results. i would still prefer Google though, because it gives a little bit more relevant search results than Bing.
@ Cathy : Google is still the big dog (for most of us) but considering yahoo and MS merger bing should be something that we need to work with. BTW, you sites layout color is really striking
BING search engine is just as good as Google. In my own personal experience, Google does give more releveant search result than Bing but the difference is very small. **
i am a user of Microsofts BING search engine and it is as good as google for static webpage search. for searching blogs, i think google gives more relevant search results compared bing.