Ask does not have an URL submit feature. Until recently, you could submit your sitemap to them. But Ask.com has now retired this feature and says they will be crawling sites instead. So, the next best thing is to add a directive in your robots.txt file that specifies auto-discovery of the XML sitemap.
1. Go to the following link: http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl 2. Type in your URL, example: http://www.thietkewebchuanseo.com 3. Enter comments about your site. This is optional. Usually I enter the genre of the site and a few keywords. Example: Website design in Hollister, CA. 4. Enter the captcha text shown in the box 5. Select “Add URL”
1. Go to the following link: http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx 2. Enter the captcha text shown in the box 3. Type in your URL, example: http://www.thietkewebchuanseo.com 4. Select “Submit URL”
You will need to have an account with Yahoo. If you do not have an account you can create an account for free.
1. Go to the following link: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit 2. Sign in using your yahoo ID and Password 3. Select “Submit a Website or Webpage” 4. Type in your URL, example: www.thietkewebchuanseo.com 5. Select “Submit URL”
Submit your Sitemap to Ask:
**UPDATED AUGUST 2012**
Ask does not have an URL submit feature. Until recently, you could submit your sitemap to them. But Ask.com has now retired this feature and says they will be crawling sites instead. So, the next best thing is to add a directive in your robots.txt file that specifies auto-discovery of the XML sitemap.
Like this:
SITEMAP: http://www.the URL of your sitemap here.xml
The sitemap location should be the full sitemap URL.
That’s it! Once you complete the above steps, just sit back and be patient. It takes time for the search engines to index your pages. If you submit more than once, some search engines may consider this spamming which could result in not indexing your site at all.
Using an automated submission program to submit to multiple search engines at once may be considered spam attempts and is frowned upon by search engines such as Google.
Also note that you do not have to add all of your URL addresses for your entire site.
For example, you do not need to add http://www.thietkewebchuanseo.com/about.hml and http://www.thietkewebchuanseo.com/contact.hml. Simply enter the home page URL and let the engines do the rest.
