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Sitemaps are an excellent way to tell Bing about URLs on your site that would be otherwise hard to discover by our web crawlers. You can submit your sitemaps to your Bing Webmaster Tools account in any of these formats: The sitemaps page contains a list of all the sitemaps, sitemap indexes and feeds known to Bing for a particular site.
In this tutorial we will focus on how to ping all search engines (Google and Bing) with you sitemap. When you submit your sitemap, it will notify search engine, that there is something new on your website and they will recrawler you content sooner.
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There are multiple ways how you can notify search engines about new content. You can resubmit your sitemap in Bing or Google webmaster tools. You can visit special URL that will notify search engines about your new sitemap. You can use this tool and it will on your behalf ping Google and Bing.
- Why Sitemaps? Why Ping them?
- How Pinging Works
- How Often to Ping
- Stay Fresh
You have probably already submitted your sitemap to Google, Bing and other search engines using their webmaster consoles, if so, you’re in a good spot— rest assured that search engines know that you have a sitemap. And if you have a sitethat is relatively static, meaning that pages are not being updated or created often, this is probably good enoug...
It is actually very simple. If you have ever used a web browser you will probably understand. 1. You send an HTTP GET request to a specified “ping” URL on a search engine’s server with your sitemap’s URL appended to it. 2. When the search engine receives the request, they, in turn, send an HTTP GET request to the sitemap URL that you submitted. 3. ...
Google used to recommend pinging no more than once per hour in their sitemaps documentation. As of 2015, they do not suggest any rate limit. Things have changed… At Postmates, while testing Airflow data pipelines, we pinged our sitemaps 174 times in one day. Looking at our server logs, we recognized that, every single attempt to ping the sitemaps l...
The takeaway is that if you really want to keep Google’s index of your site fresh, ping Google with your sitemaps. Do it as often as you have fresh content and make sure that the content listed in the sitemap file is discernibly different than last time you pinged Google. In addition, make sure that you set the appropriate headers with the updated ...
Ping your sitemaps to Google and Bing to inform search engines about new content. You can tell Google or Bing about the changes that have happened in your site, by pinging them your changed sitemaps. "Pinging" in this case means sending a GET request to a provided endpoint. So nothing magical there.
Find the Sitemaps feature – you can access it through the widget on the dashboard on your site, or Webmaster Tools. Click Submit a Sitemap and paste your sitemap URL, then hit Submit. There are two alternative methods to submit your sitemap to Bing: using your site’s robot.txt file or sending an HTTP request to Bing.
