Once you create a new website Google, Bing or any other search engines will start indexing your website over a period of time. It is always a good practice to submit sitemap to the search engines to their respective webmaster tools. Submitting sitemap to the search engines gives you more control over the crawling of these search engines. This would also provide you with some important information that you would require to improve the SEO of your website. Below I have given instructions on how to submit sitemap to search engines.

For this you will need to generate sitemap for your website. You could use some free tools online to generate sitemap for you website.

One free tool you can use is Sitemap Generator.

Google Search Central (formerly Webmasters):

You will need to have a Google account for this.

Click Select property type -> Enter the Domain or the URL prefix of you website and click continue.

If the property type selcted was domain then you can either add the TXT or CNAME to the domain record.

If you had done the process correctly you would have verified the ownership of the website successfully and your site will be indexed in 24 to 48 hours.

Bing Webmaster Tools:

Now submitting your sitemap to Bing Webmaster tools is similar to submitting to Yahoo as both Bing and Yahoo have merged. So you will need to take care of Bing Webmaster tools alone for both Bing and Yahoo search engines.

You will need to have a Microsoft account to submit sitemap to Bing.

Go to Bing webmaster tools and sign in to your Microsoft account or sign up for one.

Once logged in, enter your website URL in the 'Add Site' text box and click Add.

Since you have already uploaded the sitemap to your server enter the path of the sitemap in the 'Add the Sitemap' text box.

If you had created the sitemap using the tool I mentioned above you will need to specify the sitemap URL as yourwebsitename.com/sitemap.xml.

Next you will need to verify ownership of the website.

For this you could upload the html file provided (FTP access required) or you could use alternative methods like adding html meta tag to header of your webpage. Then click Verify.

Now you have successfully submitted your website sitemap to Yahoo and Bing. It would take some time to crawl your website. The status of the indexed pages can be found on clicking the Sitemap submitted in your website's dashboard.