Now that your Sitemap is created, it’s time to submit it to the major search engines.  There are a couple of ways to do this for the three top search engines.  You can basically ping the major search engines or open a Webmaster account.

In this step, we will do a quick submit to Ask, Google, Yahoo, and Live/MSN Search.  Please note that Ask.com does not offer a Webmaster account, so pinging Ask is a must.

To ping and notify the search engines of your Sitemap file, you must add your complete Sitemap URL after the “=” and go to that URL in your Web Browser.  Each search engine will notify you whether the ping was successful or not.