We have been keeping a close eye on Ask.com and are seeing traffic increases from Ask.com for some of our clients. In fact, one e-commerce client over this summer has seen transactions more than double from Ask.com referrers. A 100% increase in transactions – now that really gets our attention!
We’ve shared with Wagon readers about submitting an XML sitemap to Google, to Yahoo and updated readers about the potential of submitting to MSN this Fall. I thought I would remind readers that you can also submit your XML sitemap to Ask.com and provide some simple how to’s.
There are two ways to submit your XML sitemap to Ask.com:
1. Use the auto-discovery directive in your robots.txt file:
SITEMAP: http://www.yoursitemapurl.xml
2. Submit your sitemap via Ask.com’s ping URL:

http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.yoursitemapurl.xml

Lastly, make sure you’re using the accepted sitemaps protocol.

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Doug Ausbury

Co-Founder at Intrapromote

Doug is our resident music and sports junky which has given rise to his Intrapromote fame of being able to play "name that track" and the occasional basketball story that makes us all, well, giggle. Oh yeah he also co-founded the company too so we all like him a lot. Doug is an IP co-founder and handles a whole lot of that day-to-day operational stuff that tends to make OCD types giddy with joy. His industry knowledge is as vast as he is tall (which is very, by the way). Combining his experience in Search Engine Optimization, web development, e-commerce philosophy, and traffic metrics, Doug formed Intrapromote in 1999 along with Co-Founder John Lustina, with the ultimate goal of offering a comprehensive list of Search Engine Optimization programs for companies of all sizes. So far, so good. At least in our opinion.

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