Sitemap pings for instant search updates
Publishing your blog on WordPress.com lets you focus on your content while we sweat the technical stuff, including helping your content reach a larger audience.
Last week WordPress.com turned on sitemap pings for our millions of hosted blogs. Now, immediately after you publish or delete a page or post*, your WordPress.com blog sends a ping to Google, Bing, Yahoo! and Ask. These immediate notifications help the major search engines receive your new content as quickly as possible (often within seconds) so your blog can show up in search results faster.
Help search engines discover your content
Sitemap pings are just one of the ways WordPress.com helps your content reach a large audience moments after you hit “Publish.” Every blog includes support for webmaster validation through Google, Bing and Yahoo! webmaster portals. Post updates are sent through Ping-o-Matic!, a ping relay tool owned by the WordPress Foundation, to major feed reader and blog search engines. Our Publicize feature updates your Yahoo! and Twitter accounts with a short summary and a link back to your blog content. These are just some of the ways WordPress.com helps you find your audience.
More information
- Creating and submitting sitemaps to Google
- Bing Webmaster Tools
- How Yahoo! supports sitemaps
- Ask.com webmaster FAQ
* Note: We only expose content to search engines for public blogs on WordPress.com.
February 19th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
This gonna be great.
February 19th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
Thank you for caring!
February 19th, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Thank you WordPress, and Niall. I really appreciate your efforts and hard work.
February 20th, 2010 at 12:05 am
Thank you
February 20th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Do i need to do anything to get a site map or its all going to work automatically
February 20th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
It’s automatic. Just keep on blogging.
February 20th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
I love WordPress so much. Thank you.
February 20th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
I think that …this site is for beginners …i am beginner
but i can’t understand how to control it i want to build comment board and page for pictures and more like a piczo …i will be happy if I know how to do this …but i am sure that the site is very cool 
February 20th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Waow, my deep and sincere THANKS!
February 21st, 2010 at 12:49 am
good job man thanks
February 21st, 2010 at 6:28 am
I feel indebted to all of you guys at W.P. for every minute and sweat you have given us. Could not ask for more. Thank you so much guys!.
February 21st, 2010 at 10:17 pm
Thats great news, one less thing to remember to do. Thanks.
February 21st, 2010 at 11:08 pm
THIS IS SO GOOD! THANKS WORDPRESS!
February 22nd, 2010 at 5:21 am
WOW! This is awesome! Thank you!
February 22nd, 2010 at 9:27 am
Thankyo
February 23rd, 2010 at 10:25 am
thank you WordPress!
February 23rd, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Great Feature!!!!!
February 23rd, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Thanks so much! You guys are amazing!
February 23rd, 2010 at 10:31 pm
Thanks for the hard work! =)
February 24th, 2010 at 1:46 am
Great feature! Thanks!
February 24th, 2010 at 4:16 am
Thank you wordpress
February 24th, 2010 at 11:41 am
If we edit the post and then publish it, does that also send ping to search engine ?
February 24th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
What else can we ask. Thanks!!
February 24th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
This is great news. Thank you, WordPress. I started seeing increased traffic as soon as the yahoo promotion was implemented. Now this. Very impressive.
February 24th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
Great info! I’m new to WordPress – reading this stuff makes it seem less overwelming.
February 25th, 2010 at 1:15 am
Thanks WordPress! ^_^
February 25th, 2010 at 3:38 am
Fantastic! I love WordPress!