While I have some more time now use
GSiteCrawler to help you create an
XML sitemap.
And then you might need to sign into Google but go to
Google Webmaster Tools to submit the sitemap.
Add
Code:
Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
to your robots.txt file to let MSN and ask.com know where your sitemap is. I also have
Code:
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:
in mine. I think this is the one that tells Google it is OK to spider your site. And then
Yahoo has a place whre you can submite your URL and manage it.
Ask.com is
Code:
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.exmaple.com/sitemap.xml
in the address bar.