In November 2006, Google, Yahoo! and MSN joined forces to support a new industry standard for sitemaps. Unity-aero provides a standard way to generate this map but is should still be submitted to the big three seaach engines; namely Google, Yahoo and MSN.
Google originally developed the XML schema for sitemaps and have developed a dedicated portal for webmasters, from where you can submit your sitemap
http://www.google.com/webmasters/
Yahoo follows a similar approach to Google. Again, there is a dedicated sevice for webmasters (Yahoo! Site Explorer) and a procedure for verifying your ownsership of the site. Go to http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ and follow the instructions.
MSN have yet to implement a formal interface for Sitemap submission (as at 27 November 2006). Whilst MSN have yet to implement a front door, there is a recognised back door for submitting your sitemap to the MSN Search index; namely moreover.com! You should use the following syntax directly in your browser URL box:
http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=http://yourdomain.com/yoursitemap.xml
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