Sitemaps Pinging URLs for Google, Yahoo & Ask.com

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft & Ask.com all of them support Sitemaps.

So how do you ping these services to notify the search engines of an update to your Sitemaps,

If you do not want to wait for them to find it themselves?

Then there  URLs you can use to ping the various engines. Here they are:

Ask.com:

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

Google:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http:%3A//www.domain.com/sitemap.xml

Yahoo:

http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=http://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml

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