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Live Search Sitemap: It Works

live searchDo you create XML sitemaps for Google and submit it regularly? I do it for most of my blog and sites. But do you also submit the same sitemap to Live Search (MSN) too? If not, start doing it from today. It really helps.

I recently did a simple study with live search sitemap. I have a site which has around 3,000 pages. I submit my sitemap to Google and Yahoo regularly. Google sends around 140,000 visitors per month. Yahoo sends around 20,000 visitors per month. Live/MSN was used to send only around 3,000 visitors.

I also checked number of pages listed in various search engines. Google lists around 2,500 of these 3000 pages. Yahoo lists only 560 pages (I don’t know why so less). I also checked with MSN/Live, it listed only 280 of my pages.

Then I submitted my sitemap (same one which I submit to Google) to Live.com. After 15 days, today, I checked the stats. Now live is having around 2,500 of my pages listed. Wow! Does it also increased my traffic? I checked the stats. Yes, it does.

I used to get around 3,000 visitors per month from Live. But this month till June 22nd I have already received 11,000 visitors from Live (and MSN as shown by awstats). I submitted the sitemap to Live.com on 6th of this month only. So just this one step of submitting my sitemap has increase the traffic from Live/MSN to 4 times. Wow! Now I need to do it for all of my sites.

So, here is the moral of the story: Do submit your sitemap to live.com as well.

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Jim Karter on June 23rd 2008 in Internet Marketing, Traffic Generation

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37 Responses to “Live Search Sitemap: It Works”

  1. Ert responded on 23 Jun 2008 at 5:11 am #

    Hi,

    How can I submit sitemap to live search and yahoo ? Could you give me detail informations please ?

    Thanks

  2. Jim Karter responded on 23 Jun 2008 at 5:18 am #

    To submit your sitemap to live.com, just go to the site and click on the link at the bottom of the page saying “Webmasters”. If you have a hotmail/MSN account, then login, else create one.

    Then in the webmaster’s interface, you can submit your website link and sitemap.

    You also need to verify your site with them.

  3. Evan responded on 23 Jun 2008 at 6:14 am #

    thanks! Just submitted lets hope it adds some more traffic. I’m addicted to traffic!

  4. Web Hustler responded on 23 Jun 2008 at 7:42 am #

    Where the hell you been Jim?

  5. Neeraj responded on 23 Jun 2008 at 8:56 am #

    Do you submit your sitemap for all search engines again and again after a regular interval Or you do it only once?

  6. harshads responded on 23 Jun 2008 at 8:57 am #

    Thank God you are back!
    Where were you?

    Btw What is the reason behind getting less traffic from other search engine than Google?

    I’m also having same problem. :|

  7. Rajesh responded on 23 Jun 2008 at 9:25 am #

    I am eagerly waiting for your income stats last mnth :)

  8. Hitesh responded on 23 Jun 2008 at 10:16 am #

    Though i have done that earlier i didn’t find any valuable results so i gave up. I will try again

  9. MillionEuroMan responded on 23 Jun 2008 at 4:21 pm #

    Nice post - I’ll try this to my sites!

  10. tansks responded on 23 Jun 2008 at 6:02 pm #

    I will do the same for my sites. Thanks for the tips and it it really help.

  11. Zak Show responded on 23 Jun 2008 at 6:04 pm #

    Hey Jim,
    It has been a while :)
    Glad to see new posts, and thanks for the tip.
    Site added and sitemap updated.
    Cheers.

  12. rowen responded on 23 Jun 2008 at 10:36 pm #

    Good tip, thanks

  13. adStrategist responded on 24 Jun 2008 at 1:31 am #

    Geez…
    I’m not joking, I had an average of 1500 indexed pages at Live for one of my websites, 12 hours ago I’ve submitted the sitemap, verified the site and now I have 28.000 !!!

    I am totally overwhelmed…

  14. Ankit responded on 24 Jun 2008 at 1:33 am #

    hey Jim

    thanks for the tip. It is quite funny that we all are so obsessed with google that we forget other search engines.

  15. Jonk responded on 24 Jun 2008 at 2:25 am #

    It’s good that you’re back Jim, I was thinking about your blog yesterday. You run one of the best in my feed reader cos you just give advice with no BS. I like that

  16. Hardik Vyas responded on 24 Jun 2008 at 3:31 am #

    It’s done for my site(www.hvinfotech.com)…Hope for best…Thanks Jim for sharing with us…:)

  17. skbalaji responded on 24 Jun 2008 at 3:54 am #

    nice site link has given to me i will check and post u later
    thanxs

  18. harishkumar responded on 24 Jun 2008 at 3:58 am #

    live.com searching is right serach to increase the site traffic i am new to this adsense so plz help me how to increase the traffic thanks

  19. gayendra responded on 24 Jun 2008 at 4:03 am #

    live.com search engine is good nice
    thanks

  20. harishkumar responded on 24 Jun 2008 at 4:49 am #

    how can i submit my sitemap address to the live.com
    i am new to this field plz help me

  21. Raoraj responded on 24 Jun 2008 at 4:51 am #

    i completely agree with you jim. i’m getting some good traffic from live and msn. i usually submit sitemaps to yahoo, live and google.

  22. Ert responded on 24 Jun 2008 at 5:07 am #

    Thank you Jim

  23. ibusinesstalk responded on 24 Jun 2008 at 7:24 am #

    How long did it take to create 3000+ pages contents? that is just amazing..I guess MSN can pull some nice traffics..

    Jim, can you mix with ezinearticles contents with own unique contents? Still google will penalize?

  24. Will.Spencer responded on 24 Jun 2008 at 6:42 pm #

    I seldom bother with sitemaps, because all of my sites are easily crawlable.

    I was completely shocked to discover that MSN Live had only indexed a single page from one of my PR6 sites. I just submitted a sitemap to MSN for that site.

    I’ll monitor that and I’ll also check some of my other sites to see if MSN has missed them.

    This should be very embarrassing for Microsoft.

    Thanks Jim!

  25. Jim Karter responded on 24 Jun 2008 at 9:00 pm #

    Hey Will, I never knew you visit my blog as well. :) I am sure you will surely get benefited (or may be little bit surprised) with this sitemap submission.

  26. Carol responded on 25 Jun 2008 at 12:44 am #

    Thanks for your info Jim…I tought those search engines collect pages automatically. I never do submiting pages.Anyway, seems now more people start using Live Search.

  27. Bud responded on 25 Jun 2008 at 3:52 am #

    What is the xml sitemap you use Jim?

    Is it a paid one or a free one?

  28. Gopal Tripathi responded on 25 Jun 2008 at 6:01 am #

    Good to see you after a long time.
    Agreed, its really good to submit sitemaps to top search engines to index maximum possible pages.
    We are still waiting for your earning-reports of last month and also,for the reason you are banned from DP ?
    …..thanks

  29. Small Business Profit responded on 25 Jun 2008 at 10:57 pm #

    Hey Jim,

    Really it’s very helpful post…I rarely use Live and didn’t familiar of Live but I submitted sitemap now. Let’s see how it effect to my traffics.

    I generally concentrate on Google to get traffics but now I think i have also try to get from Yahoo and Live.

    Can we submit sitemap in Yahoo as well?

  30. Jim Karter responded on 25 Jun 2008 at 11:04 pm #

    Yes, you can submit the sitemap to Yahoo as well. So, you just need to create only one and submit to all.

    I use the XML-sitemap pluging for my wordpress blogs to create sitemap and I use “GSiteCrawler” software (windows based) to create the sitemap for my other websites.

  31. CrownRahul responded on 25 Jun 2008 at 11:52 pm #

    thanks Dear Jim,

    I added my all the sites on live.com
    this is very nice for get more traffic on my site.
    thanks again
    Crown

  32. Sam responded on 26 Jun 2008 at 7:39 am #

    I seemed to be fully crawled with live atm w/o submitting a sitemap, has anyone in a similar situation noticed any traffic increases after submitting sitemap?

    Also, what software/tools are you using to create a good sitemap?

  33. siujang responded on 27 Jun 2008 at 1:18 pm #

    I didn’t familiar with live before, but I’ll start to use it- include the site map. Hope I’ll get success to drive more traffic besides from google and Yahoo.

    thanks Jim

  34. penantang responded on 02 Jul 2008 at 7:01 pm #

    Thx 4 ur tips jim. I’ll submit my site to top SE. i hope my site’s traffic will increase.

  35. Halim-Belajar SEO responded on 04 Jul 2008 at 10:07 pm #

    I can’t find where should I submit on Live.com. Can someone guide me?

  36. braveurl.com responded on 11 Nov 2008 at 8:26 pm #

    Thanks!. is live.com same with msn.com jim?

  37. Jim Karter responded on 11 Nov 2008 at 9:34 pm #

    yes, they are the same.

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