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Google, Yahoo, and MSN Ping URLs for Sitemaps

  • December 30, 2007
  • by Gradiva Couzin

If you’ve got an XML sitemap for your website, you can alert the search engines to updates by typing a specially formatted URL into your browser. Here are the URLs for the Sitemap ping services for each of the three major search engines.

  • Google:
    http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/pingsitemap=http://www.example.com/sitemap-file.xml.
  • Where example.com and sitemap-file.xml are replaced by your domain and filename.

  • Bing:
    http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://www.example.com/sitemap-file.xml.
  • Where example.com and sitemap-file.xml are replaced by your domain and filename.

  • Yahoo! also offers this service, but a more involved registration process is required.  Learn more about Yahoo!’s Update Notification.

For help with XML Sitemap set-up and submittal, follow these links:

  • Google Help: Sitemaps
  • Sitemap overview on searchengineland.com
  • The Sitemap Protocolpage at sitemaps.org
  • The Wikipedia page on Sitemaps
  • Sitemap Generators and other Sitemap-related forums services, listed by Google

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6 COMMENTS
  • jens
    February 3, 2010 at 10:42 am

    I need this info that my blog updated but failed to update sitemap on yahoo

    thank you

  • Helio
    May 12, 2010 at 5:32 am

    Thanx for sharing ping url with us. i often need it

  • Saeed Neamati
    March 3, 2012 at 2:15 am

    Thanks for this quick reference. I think Yahoo also has a URL. I’m not sure though.

  • [edited, please use a name, not a keyword]
    April 23, 2012 at 4:04 pm

    Is there some good service to ping sitemaps to a list of search engines ? I am searching for that. Please share if you have some idea . Thanks

    1. Gradiva Couzin
      April 27, 2012 at 9:20 am

      Hi, have you tried pingomatic.com?

      Gradiva

  • Jaimin
    April 20, 2013 at 4:39 am

    Is there any disadvantage with submit sitemap ?

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