We had explained how to submit Blogger sitemaps to Google and Yahoo!. When the sitemap industry standard was first announced in 2006, Microsoft's MSN was one of the three major search providers which supported the protocol. Submitting your Blog's sitemap to these search engines will enable them to index the pages and contents of the site. Needless to say, having all the pages indexed will essentially avail your contents to more internet users and improve your site's page rank.
Blogger Sitemap
If you own an external domain site, you can search the net for sitemap generators which help you create a sitemap file. Upload the file onto the root directory and call it sitemap.xml. The full URL of the sitemap will then be something like this:- “http://domainname.com/sitemap.xml”
However, we cannot upload files onto the root directory of Blogger blogs. Hence, when asked to insert a Blogger blog sitemap, it will have to be either:-
http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/rss.xml |
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OR
http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/atom.xml |
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Replace YOURBLOGNAME with the name of your blog. For Blogger blogs, do not add "www." to YOURBLOGNAME. As an example, our blog's sitemap will be http://tips-for-new-bloggers.blogspot.com/rss.xml
Submit Blog Sitemap to MSN
Unlike Google and Yahoo!, MSN does not have a set of procedures or an address where you can submit sitemaps to. In the latest post in their Microsoft Live Search Weblog, they had invited webmasters and developers to help build a New Webmaster Portal that would include sitemap creation, submission and ping tools, very much what Google and Yahoo! already had. Once MSN has that user interface, we shall update this article.
The MSN team had suggested that webmasters add this to their robots.txt file to have the MSN spiders crawl the sitemap file:-
User-agent: * Sitemap: http://domainname.com/sitemap.xml |
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Again, we do not have root access to the Blogger server and this will not avail to us.
The alternative solution in the meantime is to submit the Blog sitemap to Moreover.com. It seemed that there was a standing arrangement for Moreover to provide the submitted feeds to MSN for crawling and indexing.
Whether or not the arrangement still holds true, there is really no harm in submitting your sitemap to Moreover.
Copy and paste this line into your internet browser, replacing the portion in red with the name of your Blog:-
http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/rss.xml |
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If you have submitted it correctly, you should see this message:-
Thank you for your ping. The moreover database will be updated with the new data from your url - http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/rss.xml as soon as possible. |
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Submit Blog Sitemap to Ask.com
Ask.com, previously known as Ask Jeeves, is the next major internet search engine. The sites that it owns include Excite, Bloglines, MyWay and iWon. It is also a participant of the Sitemaps protocol program.
Submitting the sitemap to Ask is easy too. Copy and paste this line into your internet browser, replacing the portion in red with the name of your Blog:-
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/rss.xml |
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If you are successful, you should see this screen:-

Submit Sitemaps to other search engines
Progressively, there should be more search engines that will join this Sitemaps program. More likely than not, they will use the recommended ping submission format:-
http://search-engine-url/ping?sitemap=http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/rss.xml |
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If you are unable to find a submission link in that search engine site, try the above and keep your fingers crossed that it is the correct ping address.
Finally, submit your Blog to Blog Directories and Feed Directories to let more people know about your Blog. As well, submit your Blog to the various Search Engines for maximum exposure.
© Tips for New Bloggers
19 comments:
Just submitted my blog to ask.com as per your instructions. Worked as you said it would. Ask.com also have some great looking addons for your blog too but I have not tried them yet.
Thanking You
Peter McCartney
Going to submit my blog to all major search engines.
I didn't know this before.
Ohh, I am still newbie.
Unrelated although I intend to utilize your instructions as I find they work for me. But, when are you going to post about a READ MORE link. I have tried many out there and dissatisfied with explanation and the way they work when I use them. I want to keep my site as clean as possible and easy for my readers to navigate.
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Rgds
www.delsonclicks.blogspot.com
Thanks for the comprehensive guide for submission to different search engines.
My question is:
Since blogger, blogspot platform is from google, if I add my site to yahoo and msn search engines, will that affect my pr ranking by google in any way?
Thanks.
Hi Jesieblogjourney
No, it has no adverse effect. If any, it should improve your PR since more people will chance by your site.
damn, thanks so much for your site. without it i would still be going around in circles and fruitlessly troubleshooting.
I have been trying to put the sitemap on my site for a few month now. This info is going to help me figure it out. Thank you very much.
Thanks for tips...
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Thanks for your sharing.
I have translated this article into Chinese, and added my blog
to them.
Thank you very much
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I'd been wondering why my blog never appeared on google until I found your article. This is really useful. Now I 'm on google. If you have time, please comment on my blog layout. It's being experimented.
Thanks friend, I got difficulty in submitting my rss to MSN.. Thanks..
very informative! easy to follow too! thanks! had my blog submitted to ask and moreover. =)
Peter,
We can submit the URL to MSN using this webmaster link:
http://webmaster.live.com/webmaster/
I have done the same just now but don't know how much it has the affect.
Sherin
http://investinternals.blogspot.com
i just finish submitted my blog to ask and msn. thanks for the great tips. before this i only know how to submit my blog to google.
once again, thx. this is really great blog. i just subscribe to yours
thanks i just submited my blog http://best4eeeians.blospot.com to ASK
how can i check my sitemap status in ask lile i do in google webmasters
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