Sitemaps Ping URLs at Google, Yahoo, & Ask.com

Last week, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft & Ask.com To All Support Sitemaps Autodiscovery. So how do you ping these services to notify the search engines of an update to your Sitemaps, if you do not want to wait for them to find it themselves?

Softplus at Cre8asite Forums posted the URLs you can use to ping the various engines. Here they are:

Ask.com: http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A//www.domain.com/sitemap.xml
Google: http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http:%3A//www.domain.com/sitemap.xml
Yahoo: http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=http://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml

I did not test these myself, but they seem accurate.

Note, there is no URL listed for Microsoft's Live search. Why? I suspect they currently do not support Sitemaps. Which brings me back to my lingering question, Is Microsoft's Live Search Ever Going to Add Sitemaps Support? They have been promising it since November 15, 2006.

Forum discussion at Cre8asite Forums.

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posted rustybrick in Search Engine Optimization at April 16, 2007 8:16 AM Comments (11)

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The 2nd link from good is showing "Bad Request" error :(

Pratheep

Posted by Pratheep at April 17, 2007 04:06

You can indeed submit your sitemap xml file to MSN. You have to do it through Moreover. MSN has some partnership with them and I have used it for my site that was not indexed in MSN for three months and after I submitted the sitempa.xml file via Moreover, suddenly I was in the search results. Get the information here http://w.moreover.com/site/products/ind/pingserver.html

Posted by Brent at April 17, 2007 11:17

Moreover and MSN have been doing that for years, no?

This is a bit different, I thought?

Posted by Barry Schwartz at April 17, 2007 11:33

Here is the Google ping URL that I use nightly successfully:

www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=

Posted by Brad at May 11, 2007 08:42

The Bad Request error is because you've not put your xml sitemap url on the end of that url.
Example:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http://www.seroundtable.com/sitemap.xml

Posted by Mike Koenig at September 12, 2007 13:16

If anyone still have "Bad Request" error, try pings with encoded urls. for examle:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fdomain.com/sitemap.xml

I use the following code:
my $url = 'http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2F'.$ENV{SERVER_NAME}.'%2Fsitemap.xml';
unless (defined ($ping = get $url)) {
die 'could not get '.$url;
}

Posted by Valentin at December 21, 2007 02:55

yahoo one seen like doesn't work

Posted by No Name at June 29, 2008 03:23

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Posted by Submit your Favorite Art links and Articles at August 9, 2008 04:41

Here's the results from pings made in I.E. browser over the last few minutes.

I have changed my url to MySite.com for personal reasons. Change MySite.com to your url and get the location of your sitemap correct before using them.

http://webmaster.live.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.MySite.com%2Fsitemap.xml.gz
Thanks for submitting your sitemap.

http://webmaster.live.com/ping.aspx?siteMap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.MySite.com%2Fsitemap.xml.gz
Thanks for submitting your sitemap.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.MySite.com%2Fsitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap Notification Received
Your Sitemap has been successfully added to our list of Sitemaps to crawl. If this is the first time you are notifying Google about this Sitemap, please add it via http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ so you can track its status. Please note that we do not add all submitted URLs to our index, and we cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if they will appear.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.MySite.com%2Fsitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap Notification Received
Your Sitemap has been successfully added to our list of Sitemaps to crawl. If this is the first time you are notifying Google about this Sitemap, please add it via http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ so you can track its status. Please note that we do not add all submitted URLs to our index, and we cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if they will appear.

http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.MySite.com%2Fsitemap.xml.gz

-
Update notification has successfully submitted.

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http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.MySite.com%2Fsitemap.xml.gz

-
Update notification has successfully submitted.

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http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.MySite.com%2Fsitemap.xml.gz
Your Sitemap submission was successful
Your Sitemap has been successfully received and added to our Sitemap queue.
Thank you for your submission

http://api.moreover.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.MySite.com%2Fsitemap.xml.gz
Thank you for your ping. The moreover database will be updated with the new data from your url - as soon as possible.

http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.MySite.com%2Fsitemap.xml.gz
Thank you for your ping. The moreover database will be updated with the new data from your url - http://www.MySite.com/sitemap.xml.gz as soon as possible.

Note that webmaster.live.com has 2 valid ways of doing it. So does google.com. As for search.yahooapis.com I prefer the first one as that's the one shown on http://developer.yahoo.com/search/siteexplorer/V1/ping.html. For api.moreover.com I'm not sure. Their site recommends the second one and that returns the sitemap url. But I've seen so many useages of the first one which is the sitemaps.org standard "ping?sitemap=" I'm confused. Anybody any comments.

Posted by Kevin Skinner at September 17, 2008 18:44

http://webmaster.live.com/ping.aspx?siteMap=YOURsitemap.xml

this will add to MSN

Posted by David Anttony at January 14, 2009 09:31

ask doesn't work with sitemap.php?q=(keyword)

Posted by bobster at March 4, 2009 15:34