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Does Ask.com support sitemaps?

April 26, 2017Ask.com Sitemaps support

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Does Ask.com support sitemaps?

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Yes, Ask.com supports the open-format Sitemaps protocol. Once you have prepared the sitemap, add the sitemap auto-discovery directive to robots.txt as follows: SITEMAP: http://www.the URL of your sitemap here.xml The sitemap location should be the full sitemap URL. Alternatively, you can also submit your sitemap through the ping URL: http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.the URL of your sitemap here.xml Please note that sitemap submissions do not guarantee the indexing of URLs. To learn more about the protocol, please visit the Sitemaps web site at http://www.sitemaps.org. 2. So, when I chose the second option, I made sure to substitute www.your-sitemap-file-name.xml with the FULL URL of my sitemap, not just the filename of my sitemap, which I am sure a lot of folks do. So you to the address bar of your browser (where you type out the URL of the page you want to view), type out the Ask.com PING URL like the one I list below and press Enter: http://submissions.ask.com/ping?