Bloggers know the importance of XML sitemaps very well. XML sitemaps are the key to faster search engine indexing and are the ultimate language of communication between you and search engine spiders. Google Webmaster Central is the official webmaster platform provided by Google and you can use it to add your blog or site XML sitemap to Google.

This will help Google to recognize your site pages fast and soon enough you will start receiving Google search engine traffic.

However until now, Live Search did not have any such tool which could be used to communicate between Live search engine and webmasters but with the launch of Live Search Webmaster Center you can easily submit your XML sitemap to Live Search and ensure that Live Search will send you the maximum search engine traffic along with Google.

Just visit http://webmaster.live.com/ and sign up if you don’t have a Windows Live ID. If you do then simply login and add your blog XML sitemap using the easy instructions. Live Search Webmaster Center will tell you the rank of your domain and will also display your top 5 pages. Additionally, it will give information about your inbound, outbound links, keyword position ranking and sitemap status.