Submitting a sitemap to the search engines is one way of increasing the website crawl rate i.e. the search engines will find your content much faster. For example, if your blog is hosted on blogger, you do not have to create a sitemap, you simply just access it.

for example, I have this blog Earn Money Online and it is hosted on Blogger. To access my sitemap, this is where I go:

http://makemoneylearn.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://makemoneylearn.blogspot.com/rss.xml

Logging into Bing and Google webmasters should not be a problem if you have an account. Just search for webmasters and the address should appear on the first page of the results. You will be required to verify ownership of the blog. Just follow the instruction and you are good to go. For other search engines, there are shortcuts you can take. You just need to replace the xxxxxxxxxxx with the name of you blog.

Submiting to Bing

www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://xxxxxxxxxxx.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Submiting to Windows Live

http://webmaster.live.com/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://xxxxxxxxxxx.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Submiting to Ask

http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://xxxxxxxxxxx.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Submiting to Moreover

http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=http://xxxxxxxxxxx.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Submiting to Yahoo

http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=SitemapWriter&url=http://xxxxxxxxxxx.blogspot.com/atom.xml

http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http://xxxxxxxxxxx.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Submiting to Google

Login to Webmasters Tools and add your site. After the verification is done, simply click on submit a sitemap and type in

atom.xml

You can also type this in

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-result=100

or if you have post that go over 100, also type this in.

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-result=200