Important search engine where we should submit sitemap
So finally you have created your site and want to submit your site in different search engine for more visibility.
We most of only familaur with google but in industry i recommended you to submit your sitemap.xml to at least 3 major and important search engine.
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So i am writing this post about how and where we should submit the sitemap.
Google and other search engines weren’t built to rely on manual submissions; that’s why they crawl the web.
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It’s also theorized that Google looks to many other data sources, such as Chrome browser usage statistics and domain registration data to aid in their never‐ending pursuit of new websites and webpages.
Search engines can’t figure out everything via crawling. If you submit your website via the methods discussed below, you’ll have the opportunity to supply Google and Bing with some useful information about your website.
For example, you can tell them how important you deem each of your pages to be. They couldn’t obtain this information from crawling alone.
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It helps to improve your website. Google and Bing each offer some insights as to how they view your website in their respective “management dashboards” (more on this later!). There are also various tools for testing your web pages, and they’ll alert you if and when potential problems or errors occur on your site.
List of Popular Search engine
Google Webmaster
Google is our preferred search engine. If you haven’t added your website to Google Search Console, please follow these steps first.
Google has two versions of the search console, the old Google Webmaster Tools and the new Google Search Console. We recommend using the new platform but steps for both are below.
How to submit your sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools
- How to submit your sitemap to Google Search Console
- Sign in to Google Search Console.
- In the sidebar, select your website.
- Click on ‘Index’ to expand the section and then click on ‘Sitemaps’.
- Remove outdated or invalid sitemaps (if any) like sitemap.xml
- Enter sitemap_index.xml into the text box that appears.
- Click Submit.
Bing Webmaster Tools
If you haven’t added your website to Bing Webmaster Tools, please follow these steps first.
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- Sign in to Bing Webmaster Tools.
- On the My Sites page, select your website.
- In the left sidebar, click Configure My Site and then Sitemaps.
- Remove outdated or invalid sitemaps like http://example.com/sitemap.xml
- Enter your sitemap URL into the text box at the top. Your sitemap URL will look like something like this: http://example.com/sitemap_index.xml.
- Click Submit.
- Yandex Webmaster
- If you haven’t added your website to Yandex, please follow these steps first.
Yandex Webmaster
- On the home page, select your website.
- In the left sidebar, click Indexing Options and then Sitemap files.
- Remove outdated or invalid sitemaps like http://example.com/sitemap.xml
- Enter your sitemap URL into the text box at the top. Your sitemap URL will look like something like this: http://example.com/sitemap_index.xml.
- Click Add.
