This allows search engines to crawl the site more efficiently. Sitemaps are a URL inclusion protocol and complement robots.txt, a URL exclusion protocol. It is now possible to indicate a sitemap in the robots.txt.
What is my sitemap?
http:// YourSite.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
p/s: You can use this sitemap for yahoo, google, bing and ask.
SUBMITTING THE SITEMAP - Method 1
You can submit sitemaps via webmaster tools or via ping. We'll first look at the webmaster tools. They give finer control over crawling and provide tools for analyzing the performance of your site.
You need to have an account and authenticate (prove that you are the site owner) by putting a meta link in your html code. The links to do this are:
1. Google Webmasters
2. Bing Webmaster
3. Yahoo Site Explorer
For your info ;
Yahoo & Bing have join venture now.
With the completion of algorithmic transition to Bing, Yahoo! Search has merged Site Explorer into Bing Webmaster Tools. Webmasters should now be using the Bing Webmaster Tools to ensure that their websites continue to get high quality organic search traffic from Bing and Yahoo!.
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