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Boost Visibility With XML Sitemap Submission to Ask.com
September 05, 2007
We have been keeping a close eye on Ask.com and are seeing traffic increases from Ask.com for some of our clients. In fact, one e-commerce client over this summer has seen transactions more than double from Ask.com referrers. A 100% increase in transactions - now that really gets our attention!
We've shared with Wagon readers about submitting an XML sitemap to Google, to Yahoo and updated readers about the potential of submitting to MSN this Fall. I thought I would remind readers that you can also submit your XML sitemap to Ask.com and provide some simple how to's.
There are two ways to submit your XML sitemap to Ask.com:
1. Use the auto-discovery directive in your robots.txt file:
SITEMAP: http://www.yoursitemapurl.xml
2. Submit your sitemap via Ask.com's ping URL:
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.yoursitemapurl.xml
Lastly, make sure you're using the accepted sitemaps protocol.
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posted by Doug Ausbury at September 5, 2007 03:44 PM
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Comments
I have never heard of putting a sitemap in a robots.txt file before> Where does this idea come from?
Posted by: Geri at September 9, 2007 05:27 PM
It is called XML sitemaps auto discovery. I think it was Yahoo which suggested it as part of the sitemaps protocol, but I can not remember.
By the way, it has to be the full path in robots.txt, e.g: "sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap.xml"
Posted by: Thomas Schulz at November 11, 2007 09:44 AM
Hi , i had difficulty in pinging and submitting the ask.com , you helped me out .
Posted by: kelly at February 26, 2008 08:44 AM
please include my website for search queries. thanks
Posted by: harry rolle at May 15, 2008 03:00 PM
thanks
Posted by: harry rolle at May 15, 2008 03:04 PM
thanks
Posted by: harry rolle at May 15, 2008 03:06 PM
thanks
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