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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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