How Do I Submit My Site To Ask.com
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.
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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Date/Time: 7-2-2007 05:21:57 Comment #3666
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!
Date/Time: 7-2-2007 06:14:54 Comment #3667
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.
Date/Time: 7-2-2007 14:06:20 Comment #3672
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.
Date/Time: 7-2-2007 14:06:50 Comment #3673
Garry, thanks for the tip! I have submitted mine as well!
Date/Time: 7-2-2007 16:16:38 Comment #3680
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.
Date/Time: 7-6-2007 07:50:32 Comment #3704
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.
Date/Time: 7-6-2007 13:06:23 Comment #3709
Nice post. I love the new design of Ask.
I am going to submit my sitemap now.
Thanks!
Date/Time: 7-9-2007 10:12:41 Comment #3786
I love this tip Gary! I liked to it on my blog. Thanks a lot.
Date/Time: 7-10-2007 14:21:23 Comment #3822
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!
Date/Time: 7-16-2007 09:08:13 Comment #3901
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
Date/Time: 7-25-2007 02:16:24 Comment #3973
Thank for this article.
Date/Time: 8-8-2007 01:05:28 Comment #4281
From the last few days , i have been struggling to submit my blog to ask.com. You made it simple for me. Thank you
Date/Time: 8-8-2007 01:08:41 Comment #4283
You guys are all welcome. I am glad that you found it easy to submit your site to ask.com
Date/Time: 10-11-2007 17:27:14 Comment #5729
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.
Date/Time: 8-16-2008 06:02:05 Comment #18300
I use http://www.mobilefish.com/services/submitsite/submitsite.php to submit my URLs in several search engines and directories all for free.