Sitemap.xml files get pinged to search engines on site publish

Just added a new feature that will automatically ping the Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Ask search engines with your sitemap.xml file each time you publish your website.

This will help get your sites indexed faster by notifying the search engines every time you publish a new site, or add new pages to your sites.

If you want to view your website sitemap, you can navigate using your browser to the URL…

http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml

Just replace with your domain and you will see the XML file that the search engines will use to crawl your site.

Any sites that have already been published before 5/26/2011 will need to be republished to take advantage of this feature.  If your sites are already indexed, then this wont be as big a concern for you.

The way to check to see if your site has been indexed by Google is to do a Google search using the following…

site:www.yourdomain.com

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And then you should see a list of all the pages on your site that Google has in their index.  If your site is not yet indexed, then try to republish and wait a few days to check again.

If after 5 days your site is still not indexed, then we recommend you do either order some of our outsourced SEO services, or start building some links manually to your site.

Best,

John Schroeder