How to Submit a Sitemap of Your Blogger Blog to Major Search Engines

If you have not already submitted your Blogger website and sitemap to the major search engines this article will help you through the process. Submitting your Blogger (also known as Blogspot) blog to the two most popular search engines Google and Yahoo is a must if you are interested in having your site crawled and indexed quickly; and it is still the easiest way to attract more visitors. But you may want to cast your net a little wider. If so, there are a couple of other search engines worthy of your attention that you may not even have considered. In this post you will find information about how to submit your blog and sitemap to 5 major search engines: Google, Yahoo, Bing, Moreover.com and Ask.com.

How to Submit Your Site and Sitemap to Google

For a step by step walkthrough of how to submit your Blogger blog to Google as well as verify your site and add a sitemap please refer to my article How to Submit the Sitemap of Your Blogger Blog to Google.

How to Submit Your Site and Sitemap to Yahoo

Yahoo controls a fair share of the search engine market and therefore getting your Blogger blog crawled and indexed by the Nr. 2 among search engines needs to be a priority. For an in depth tutorial on how to submit your site, verify it and submit a sitemap to Yahoo Site Explorer please see my article How to Submit Your Blogger Blog to Yahoo.

How to Submit Your Site and Sitemap to Bing

It is now possible to submit a sitemap directly to Bing at the Webmaster Center. For detailed information about how to submit a Blogger blog and sitemap to Bing please refer to my article How to Add the Sitemap of Your Blogger Blog to Bing.

How to Submit Your Site and Sitemap to Moreover.com

In the past, submitting your Blog sitemap to Moreover.com expedited indexing in MSN (now Bing) because of a standing arrangement that Moreover would provide the submitted feeds to MSN for crawling and indexing. At the time of writing it is not clear if this is still useful as sitemaps can now be submitted directly to Bing. However, since there is no harm in doing so I suggest giving it a try.

To submit a sitemap to Moreover copy and paste the following line into your internet browser address taking care to replace yoursitename with the actual name of your site:

http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=http://yoursitename.blogspot.com/rss.xml

If all is well you will receive the following success message:

How to Submit Your Site and Sitemap to Ask.com

It is worth submitting your sitemap to Ask.com, formerly known as Ask Jeeves. Besides being considered an important search engine the company owns Excite, Bloglines, MyWay and iWon. Ask.com also is one of the participants in the Sitemaps Protocol Program.

Submitting your Blogger sitemap to Ask.com is fairly easy. Just copy (Ctrl + C) and paste (Ctrl + V) the following line into the address bar of your internet browser:

http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://yoursitename.blogspot.com/rss.xml

Once again, make sure to substitute yoursitename with the actual name of your site.

Provided everything works out fine you will see a success screen like this:

In this post I explained how to go about submitting your blog and sitemap to 5 major search engines: Google, Yahoo, Bing, Moreover.com and Ask.com.

Good luck!