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I used to think maintaining a sitemap was a royal pain before you could do it automatically with a range of tools. Sitemaps can have a visual html appearance so your visitors can get an overall look of your site and click through to the pages from there. But more importantly they are needed to help the search engines do their job properly of finding your pages and sticking you in their index.
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You will not need to submit links to any other search engines, that battle has been fought, all the others feed into the big three; Yahoo, Google and Bing – here is a link to show how the search engine relationship chart exists – so after submission you need to sit and wait until you get indexed – there are a couple of other things to do while you wait, getting sorted with analytics and sitemaps and robots; has to be something from a John Carpenter film.
Indexing is a wait and see scenario there is no fixed time that the search engines will inde you, it can well vary between a couple of days to a couple of months, one thing that will help is if another site already indexed has a link to yours.
To manually submit your new site to a search engine you can do Bing here and Google here, i have heard that doing this sometimes makes the process take longer but haven’t heard why? Look forward to any comments on this.
Will discuss Yahoo and Open Directory in a future post but these 2 are the more important starting points.
Actually it is preffered to get your site up to SEO scratch before you do this as then you will get indexed correctly at the start – rather than waiting for a re-index.
