Make Robots Submit your Sitemap to All Search Engines

Posted by Laura Bergells

June 8, 2007

Since April 11, it is easy to submit your sitemap using robots.txt. Simply place a one-line command your robots.txt file, so that major engine spiders like Yahoo, Live, Google, Ask and others will know where find your sitemap when they come a-crawling. Here’s how:

After you’ve created your sitemap and uploaded it to your root directory, add this line to your robotx.txt file:

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml

There, that was easy. If you haven’t done it already, do so. Should take about a minute. This tiny task makes it easier for the search engine spiders to find your pages — just one of the many steps you’ll need to take to improve your ranking at the engines.

Consider it your Friday internet marketing task!