How to submit your site to Ask

Here’s a short guide on how to submit your website to the Ask search engine, although it’s not as popular as google or yahoo is does have a considerable user base and so you should submit your website or miss out on this extra traffic.

1) The first thing you need to do is create an xml sitemap for you website, instructions can be found here.

2) Enter the submission code below into your web browser, changing to match your domain name details and sitemap location.

http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A//www.yoursite.com/yourmap.xml

Once completed you should see something like this:

Ask Submission Confirmed
Ask Submission Confirmed

If you would like to submit to a whole bunch of search engines at once try the www.Free-Web-Submission.com service.

11 thoughts on “How to submit your site to Ask”

  1. help, nothing is happening, looks like the site ask,com is busy, but can as be my mistake. Do i have to upload the xml file to web carpet? i copy pasted the generated sitemap to Word and saved it as word file with xml extension. Is it alright? The reason is i did that because when i downloaded the sitemap it was called sitemap.xml.hxtml something like that. so i thought may i nee
    d to rename it or create another file.

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  2. A reputable and well put together piece of writing that will serve to support searchers to appreciate a little more about this issue. I notice that you seem to be fairly high in status within the search engines like google and for that I appluad you – it’s not easy these days aiming to rank internet pages or even indeed internet websites. Your website is worthy nevertheless and I can understand the reason why you’re ranked in such a elevated placement for your keyword phrases through this internet page.

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