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Sitemap is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers and submitting the website search engine will help them index your site properly which in turn helps you to gain more traffic from those engines.

Q. Why to Submit Sitemap Again and Again to Search Engine ?

Ans. If you have new content on your site or blog, it is advisable to make sure the search engines know about this to get the content indexed as soon as possible. There are various search engines on the net but these 3 are the one which bring most of the traffic to your site.

Q. What should I do, if I am using a WordPress Blog ?

Ans. If you are using wordpress blog and have Google XML Sitemap plug-in installed it notifies these search engine automatically , so need to worry.

Let see how can you ping search engines:

1. Pinging Bing Search Engine

Use the ping service that is http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=[sitemap address]

Example: http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://yoursite/sitemap.xml

2. Pinging Google Search Engine

Use the ping service that is http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=[sitemap address]

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

3. Pinging Yahoo Search Engine

There are two ways of notifying yahoo:

1. Using appid : If you have a yahoo