A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users.
It becomes very important to submit the sitemap so that the search engine crawlers can go thru this sitemap and index your pages. Once the search engine index your pages, it can easily list your website when user does a search and if the content in your site matches to that of the user requirement. So make sure that you have your sitemap submitted.
I had asked this question to many of the bloggers on if they had submitted the sitemap and how did they do it.
Forutnately most of the bloggers were aware of the sitemap and they said they created one and submitted to Google webmaster using the Google webmaster tool. And when I asked what next ? They said its over, they see their pages indexed and see their webpages listed when they did search on the Google.
I asked what about other search engines. Are their webpages getting displayed when they search in other search engines than Google. Most of them answered saying if we submit to one search engine then it will be indexed and other search engines will automaitcally list the websites.
Believe in me that if you are one among the bloggers who are thinking like that, then you are loosing visitors who search using search engines other than google. You can verify it yourself. Assume you have submitted your sitemap to google. Now you do a keywaird search in Google Search Engine and your post gets displayed in the first few search results. Now try the same in another search engine like bing or yahoo. Your post may not be seen even in the first few search result pages. This is because you would have not submitted your sitemap to these search engines.
Eventhough the survey says Google is the best search engine, still there are people who uses Yahoo and bing these days. Make sure you dont miss out those visitors. So add sitemap to those search engines also.
Bing : http://www.bing.com/webmaster
Yahoo : https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
Please do find out for other popular search engines and update in the comments section.
3 comments: on "Submit Sitemaps to all Search Engine"
dont try submitting the sitemaps more than once in a day using the webmaster tools. The search engine may think you are spamming and may not crawal and index at all
Nice articles regarding to submit sitemaps to all search engine but did u find any problem while submitting to yahoo.
I did not find issues while submitting. Authentication all went properly. But i guess it says no actions was taken. I recently submitted to yahoo and hence thinking it will take some time to index it.
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