If you have your own website, you are hopefully using the robots.txt file to control where search bots look on your site. There is also another important thing you can do using the robots.tct file; you can direct search bots to your sitemap files.

This isn't a big deal for Yahoo and Google since they already provide a mechanism for webmasters to submit sitemap file locations, but for MSN and Ask, these are the only ways for them to pick them up. To add this directive in your robots.txt file, include a directive like so:

Sitemap: http://www.tipstrs.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz

where you change this with the name of your site, and the name of your sitemap file, or sitemap index file.