You always see that you have many pages but Google is not able to crawl all pages. To make crawl all your pages Google, yahoo and MSN recommends pinging your sitemap. But what is sitemap? Sitemap is nothing but a format in which you includes list of all links you currently have on your site. By the telling your sitemap to search engines, they before hand knows you’re all pages and ensure that all pages are crawled.

“A Sitemap index is an XML file that lists the multiple XML sitemap files. Sitemap index is an XML sitemap for multiple XML sitemaps. The XML format of a Sitemap index file is very similar to the XML format of a Sitemap file. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each XML sitemap (when it was last updated). After creation of a Sitemap index file webmasters can just notify search engines about the index file and the other XML sitemaps that are included in the Sitemap index file will be automatically notified too. “- Wiki.

Now pinging means notifying the search engine about updates in your sitemap. So, as soon as you update your sitemap you must ping it to the search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Some of the details for that are….

Google =>> http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=
Yahoo =>> http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=
MSN =>> http://webmaster.live.com/ping.aspx?siteMap=
Ask =>> http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=

place your sitemap url after =

After this you will see the effect in 2-3 days. You will probably find more pages in the search engines then before. Note that you can’t force Googlebot to visit you more often – what you can do is to invite it to come.

Also, If you are using wordpress or blog content management system then you can use AutoPinger.com

List of Free Search Engine Submission Provider

Yahoo! Buzz is web 2.0 Social Bookmarking site somewhat similar to digg and pligg. What make it great is it’s design and quality of links in that. If we think genue then Yahoo! Buzz could be on top in a very short time. Yahoo! Buzz has good potential to be on top. From SEO point of view this could be boost in the visitor graphs.

Initially it was just open for some webmaster who were approved by the Yahoo! Buzz team. So, not all were able to utilize the buzz’s capacity. What would make its future interesting is whether they will be able to tackle spam or not, will they manage to provide quality news links or not. We have wait and watch.

So, if you are webmaster or if you like digging or bookmarking some special pages then Yahoo Buzz is waiting for you.

Yahoo! Buzz