Ask.com is making a come back and getting your site listed in their search engine is well worth the time and effort. Submitting your site into Ask.com is a great way to help you gain more traffic from sources other than Google. It is a good idea to invest time and create strategies on pulling in traffic from multiple sources. If you loose a source but have other sources to fall back on, your site will not suffer from a huge loss in traffic. Before I show you how to submit your site into Ask.com, take a moment to join my free mailing list. I strongly recommend that you take less than 30 seconds to subscribe to my free mailing list. This isn’t your average mailing list, this one is different. On my mailing list I provide subscribers will premium grade content that I typcally sell for a fee on my blog. I write about a lot of really great things on my blog, but the really good stuff costs money. If you would like to receive free copies of my premium articles by email, you can get them all for free when you join for free. Oh, also for joining, I have a free and instant download waiting for you.
Submit Your Site To Ask.com
Before you can submit your site to Ask.com you need to have sitemap.xml.
- If you use WordPress, you can find information about adding sitemap.xml by visiting this page and this page.
- If you use Blogger, you can find what you need by visiting this page.
Once you have a sitemap.xml file in place you can then submit your sitemap into Ask.com This process is very simple:
When you have your sitemap.xml in place you can submit your site to Ask.com by opening up your web browser and typing the following address and ping it:
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A//www.yoursite.com/yourmap.xml
That’s it. There is nothing complicated to it. Create a sitemap and then point your web browser to the special address mention above. This automatically pings Ask.com and submits your sitemap into their database. Done!
For more information about Ask.com including their history, explaination of their site and other excellent resources of information, visit their Ask.com Web Search for Webmasters.
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Two things (one being a request)
Wow, you have so many different links up there already. I have about 800, now to go through them and see what each one points towards and focus that more on my keywords.
Request: Okay, I asked on my blog and even though one pointed towards the answer I can’t find the stuff it asks for on my blog, so I’m asking you. How do I do a “Readmore” post? This is like on the celebrity sites when someone says to view more of this article click the link below.
Thanks again!
Thanks for the helpful information Gary. In fact, you are always presenting helpful and informative tips with specific instructions to make web life more interesting and effective! It’s one of the main reasons I have your site linked on Idea Selers. Thanks again.
Hi Homemom3,
It’s pretty simple. In the WordPress admin post editor, next to the image tag, there is a ‘More’ tag. Just insert that where you want the ‘Click to read more’ to appear and the rest of the content will be hidden in the main page.
Garry, thanks for the tip! I have submitted mine as well!
HomeMom3, you use blogger.com, I am not sure how to do the more tag using blogger.com. When the dust settles down in a few day for me after this virus attack, please please remind me about it and I will research it for you… If you don’t remind me, I will forget… just being honest! But please do, as I want to help.
@ Daniel. Thank you so much for the compliment. I really enjoy reading comments when people tell me that I am helping that. That is awesome!
@ K-InTheHouse. You are welcome for the tip… I hope that it helps. My goal is to gain traffic from many places to help balance if I ever was to lose Google traffic one day.
Thanks Garry. I use blogger.com so I’m going to go ahead and give it a try. I’ll let you know how it works out.
Nice post. I love the new design of Ask.
I am going to submit my sitemap now.
Thanks!
I love this tip Gary! I liked to it on my blog. Thanks a lot.
Thanks for another good suggestion – I’ve not used Ask.com for years myself, but like you say, good to have another alternative traffic source, especially if they are making a comeback!
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You convinced me to take an hours to create a site map and submit it to Ask. I’ll monitor the results shortly. Thanks…
Richard
Thank for this article.
From the last few days , i have been struggling to submit my blog to ask.com. You made it simple for me. Thank you
You guys are all welcome. I am glad that you found it easy to submit your site to ask.com
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Well Gary for some reason I am number 2 under there feed link so thats good i giess but who else do I have to submit too.
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I use http://www.mobilefish.com/services/submitsite/submitsite.php to submit my URLs in several search engines and directories all for free.
how do i know that my website have link in ask.com>?? or add to directory?
hey thax for this easy to follow tip
Thanks for the information. I was looking how submit the site. I have the xml sitemap, now just need to follow your directions.
Thanks for the right info. It was very easy to follow your instructions.
Just started this website,your help will get my site listed with ASK thanks for the Info
hi great tip thanks i just added ma website using this technique.
Ok, this is precisely what I was looking for. Now, is there a place for webmasters? What about a local business center?
the above link is incorrect, ask.com prefers
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://...
not sure what “%3A” is but it didn't work for me
http://www.meetthelondoners.co.uk/
I haven't tried this yet, but it seems like Ask should have a link to discuss this and give instruction. I can't find the official link, can anyone else?
Thanks a lot for your tips. I am going to be a daily visitor to ur site. Very nice site. Please see my site and comment.
Is it really worth to submit one’s site to Ask.com? Isn’t google the king of search engines?