Here’s a short guide on how to submit your website to the Ask search engine, although it’s not as popular as google or yahoo is does have a considerable user base and so you should submit your website or miss out on this extra traffic.
1) The first thing you need to do is create an xml sitemap for you website, instructions can be found here.
2) Enter the submission code below into your web browser, changing to match your domain name details and sitemap location.
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A//www.yoursite.com/yourmap.xml
Once completed you should see something like this:
Ask Submission Confirmed
If you would like to submit to a whole bunch of search engines at once try the www.Free-Web-Submission.com service.
help, nothing is happening, looks like the site ask,com is busy, but can as be my mistake. Do i have to upload the xml file to web carpet? i copy pasted the generated sitemap to Word and saved it as word file with xml extension. Is it alright? The reason is i did that because when i downloaded the sitemap it was called sitemap.xml.hxtml something like that. so i thought may i nee
d to rename it or create another file.
it works great and i just used the simple illustration process you provided.thanks
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Already try it and successful. Nice share, very useful for me, many thanks.
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Hi good tips here i submitted my site using your tips thanks alot keep up with the awesome tips :)
I just submitted my new site with the information you provided. Thanks a lot.
thanks
Nice I’ve given it a try. How do i make sure that it is indeed added and can be searched?
I’m beginning to like Free-Web-Submission. Great job.
Many thanks….most useful !
Paul