Now that ASK, Yahoo and Google all support the sitemap protocol, (MSN, where are you?) I thought I post how to ping the engines to let them know your map has been uploaded.

Google

http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=

http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

Yahoo

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

http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

Ask

http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=

http//www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

MSN coming soon!?

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