XML Sitemap Guide : Create Upload Submit Ping
What are XML Sitemaps
It’s a special sitemap document protocol to help search engines index websites. This protocol uses XML for describing its content. The full name is XML Sitemaps Protocol, but is commonly referred to as XML Sitemaps. The idea and format was conceived by Google, and was in the beginning called Google Sitemaps. If you are unsure what the difference it between XML Sitemaps, HTML sitemaps, RSS feeds etc. you can check this sitemaps article.
Create XML Sitemap
A quick search on Google shows various services and products for creating XML sitemaps. Read our create XML sitemaps tutorial for more information.
Upload XML Sitemap
After creating your XML sitemaps, you will need to upload it either using your favorite FTP program or use the built-in FTP functionality (if any) in your chosen sitemap generator tool. For more information, check our XML sitemap FTP upload tutorial.
Submit XML Sitemap
You can submit XML sitemaps to all primary search engines, or/and add a reference to your XML sitemap in robots.txt to allow for search engine XML sitemap auto discovery. For more information about both options, check this submit XML sitemap article.
Ping Search Engines with XML Sitemap
While search engines will check your XML sitemap for changes themselves, you can speed this process by pinging search engines when your XML sitemap has changed. You can see how in the XML sitemaps ping post.
Comments
Comment from admin
Time: February 6, 2009, 3:08 am
Well, that is the idea. Robots.txt includes a reference to your sitemap.xml file. I recommend you check the xml sitemap submit / robots tutorial at this website 
Comment from netParticles
Time: August 6, 2009, 6:31 am
There is a good article that gives step by step instructions on where you can submit your sitemap: How to Submit your Sitemap to the Top 5 Places Where They Need to Be (Google,Bing, Yahoo!, Ask.com, Moreover.com).
It is the natural next step after generating your sitemap!
Comment from seo bangalore
Time: October 19, 2009, 3:16 am
If suppose i would like to create sitemap for millions of pages then what will be the solution to do so???
Comment from admin
Time: October 19, 2009, 3:49 am
I recommend you take a look at this page about unlimited sitemap generators. In short, I think 2.x series of A1 Sitemap Generator with some configuration to split it into managable projects (say e.g. 200,000-400,000 pages) will be the best solution. (Unless you have an easy-to-extract-data-from database driven website)
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Comment from Johny
Time: December 20, 2008, 6:02 am
I dont see why robots.txt is so important, if we aint gonna include any link in it ..