I know of Google and Bing, but are there other places I can/should submit my sitemap.xml? And do they support pinging?
Where can/should I submit my sitemap.xml?
search engines;xml sitemap;ping
Outside of signing up for the various web master tools accounts, Bing, Google, Baidu, et. al., the robots.txt file can be used to generally announce the existence of a sitemap file. You use the following example in your robots.txt file which is possibly the best way to get the various search engines (generally speaking) to use your sitemap.Sitemap: http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xmlSome sites have a ping utility such as Bing and Google.I have not seen any evidence that ping for Bing (poet and don't know it) works and the Google ping assumes a web master tools account. Somehow, I think the various ping utilities have fallen out of favor over the years.Of course, I strongly recommend signing up for webmaster tools account for Bing, Google, and possibly Baidu but Baidu seems to weird about using sitemaps. Having a web master tools account does encourage these search engines to use your sitemap. For Google, creating a Google Search page ensures that your sitemap is read and the whole site spidered immediately and very fast.