The major search engines use a relatively unknown feature for quickly indexing and submitting sitemaps: autodiscovery.
The way this works is by adding 1 line of code in your robots.txt file:
Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
See press releases from Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask.
Read more at Outer Court, get Lee Odden’s perspective, SEL, Quick Online Tips & SE Roundtable.
See the official website sitemaps.org and watch the announcement to see how you can use autodiscovery to have new pages quickly indexed.
There is also schema.org which helps to define and describe content, and video sitemaps to outline and optimize your videos for better indexing.
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