Pinging Search Engines when Sitemaps Change
July 18, 2007
Here's another little known feature about the sitemaps protocol, you can actually ping search engines and crawlers to tell them about your sitemap, or to tell them that it has changed.
It's pretty simple all you need to do is send a HTTP request to:
http://search-engine-ping-url-goes-here/ping?sitemap=sitemap_url
A few notes:
- The search engine ping url for google is
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping - Your sitemap url should be URL encoded, that means use the
URLEncodedFormatfunction if your using ColdFusion. - If the ping is valid, it will return a HTTP 200 OK response code.
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On 09/12/2007 at 7:06:39 AM EDT secret33.com wrote:
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This is a valuable tip. Thanks for sharing. This is what makes your blog unique and useful. Keep up the good work
On 06/21/2010 at 5:19:02 AM EDT inderawan adi cahyono wrote:
2
I like this article, clear and helpfull :)
On 09/28/2010 at 11:58:01 AM EDT Fun wrote:
3
Which sitemap format I will send to serach engines, sitemap.xml or sitemap.xml.gz?
On 02/16/2011 at 4:36:15 PM EST Ping Search Engines wrote:
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I use googleping.com as it pings over 90 search engines free of charge with no registration required.
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