Oracle recommends that you actively register your sitemap files with the major Web search engines.
The procedures for registering your sitemap directly with a search engine vary for each, and documentation is available online.
You can also notify search engines of the sitemap location through the
robots.txt file. To do so, add a line to your site’s
robots.txt file similar to the following:
Sitemap: http://localhost:8006/discover/sitemap.xml
The
localhost:8006/discover portion of the URL should be
replaced with the absolute URL for your sitemap index file. For more
information on this notification method please visit
http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php#informing.
