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Submit your web site’s Sitemap to Live.com

Ameet Royce — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:12:41 +0000

This is the last post of the sitemap submission series. We are already through Google and Yahoo and now it’s Live.com (or MSN). The process is pretty much similar. If you have submitted your site’s sitemap to Google or Yahoo or both, you must have created the file sitemap.xml and it’s still there in the root directory of your site.

Before you do anything else just go to Live.com Webmaster Center and log in using your Live Mail or Hotmail Account and hit the ‘Add a site’ button.

When the page loads completely provide information like your web site’s url and the url or location of the site’s sitemap.xml. Please note here that this is not the regular site-map (generally sitemap.html) you used to have on your site but a specially generated xml file. You can have a sitemap.xml for your web site generated for free here – http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

After you submit your site details, you need to verify or authenticate the web site which is pretty much like Google and Yahoo. Create a HTML file by copy and pasting the code provided in the page that loads on submission in Notepad and name the file as suggested. Here is an example -

That’s it. You are done. Just hit the ‘OK’ button and you will get the confirmation that your site has been aded to Live.com Webmaster Center.

Submitting your sitemap and other site details to Google, Yahoo and Live.com is very important as it helps the search engine robots to index your site properly and hence help you achieve higher positions in the search engine result pages.

How to submit your sitemap to Google, Yahoo and Live.com

Ameet Royce — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:34:35 +0000

For better indexing and thus higher ranking of your web site you should always submit your site map to Google, yahoo and MSN (live.com). It’s not the regular html site map on your website rather it’s an xml file universally named as sitemap.xml. You can create it yourself or even better you can get it generated for free at XML-Sitemaps. After you have created the sitemap download / copy it and save it to your local hard drive and upload it to your web site root ( normally public_html). To check you have uploaded it properly type http://www.yourwebsiteurl.com/sitemap.xml . if it loads properly you are ready to proceed to the next step.

Firstly, open up the following sites in 3 different tabs of your browser (Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 supports tab browsing. however it’s not a criteria and you can do it by opening new windows or just do one by one on the same window).

Google Webmaster Tools

Step #1 – Add your site

Step #2 – Click Verify your site when the next page loads.

Step #3 – You have to choose the verification method to verify your site. You have two options – you can verify by inserting a META tag or by uploading a blank file.

First, let’s see how the META tag works -

Insert the Meta tag in your site’s Home page source code as it is. Don’t change anything, just copy and paste the code between the head tags. Note the Meta tag just below the Meta keywords tag.

Title of your site goes here

Save, Upload and Verify.

But, I prefer the File Upload method as described below.

Select the “Upload an HTML file” option instead of the earlier “Add a Meta Tag” from the drop down menu.

Create a blank HTML file and name it exactly as suggested by Google. To create a HTML file right click on your desktop or on the white space inside a folder and select New. Then select “Text Document” from the sub menu to create a text document. Rename the text document by replacing New Text Document.txt by the name provided by Google (for example, googleabCDEFgh12345IJKL67890m.html). An alert will pop up asking you whether you really want to rename the file. Hit Yes. And voila, your HTML file is ready to upload to your sever. Upload it to your root directory and first verify if it is really there by clicking the link provided. A blank page is what you are going to see but if you follow the address bar you will notice that url you just clicked a second back. If you have done something wrong the browser will return the “The webpage cannot be found” message.

Once you are satisfied, hit the Verify button.

Congratulations. You have successfully verified your site. Now proceed to upload your sitemap. Hope you have already created one and uploaded it to your server.

Step #4 – Now click the Sitemap menu from the left sidebar. Now click the Add a Sitemap link on the page which just loaded.

Step #5 – Choose your sitemap type as Add General Web Sitemap

Step #6 – You will now be prompted to add your sitemap. Just complete your Sitemap URL by typing sitemap.xml in the blank field. And hit the Add General Web Sitemap button.

Congratulations again. You have just added your sitemap to the Google. You can now expect better indexing of your pages.

Coming up next . . . how to add your sitemap to yahoo and MSN or Live.com.

Stay tuned.

MemberMediaSource.com – a marketplace for buying and selling contents

Ameet Royce — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:51:53 +0000

My friend Camilla Ricketts and her friend Sarah Harris came up with this idea. The idea, though it’s not very unique I’d say, is to get the users to upload their works which could be anything that’s considered as a web content and offer them as products for sale to fellow members. And, at the same time, he or she could buy from others making the MemberMediaSource.com a great market place for web content with Private Label Rights or PLR.

When I asked what exactly MemberMediaSource.com is, Camilla said, “It is a platform for authors, graphic artists, photographers(any media) to submit content, webmasters come and buy it to display on their web pages or make e-books or whatever and the author gets paid, thats the basics”

They just build it it and opened it to contributors last night. So why not visit the site and learn everything about it ? You can sign up and create an account of yours and subscribe to the mailing list too. I’m sure you are going to benefit from it shortly.

I’d also suggest you to join the MemberMediaSource.com Facebook Group Web Content Exposed. It’s an open group and anyone can join.

So, that’s it for today. And before I go I’d strongly recommend to visit the Submitatonce.com Home Page, there’s a surprise offer for you.

See you soon,

Ameet Royce