Submit sitemap to search engines after deployment

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/deploy b/deploy
index 7c51dbe..fdafd0d 100755
--- a/deploy
+++ b/deploy
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 #
 # Re-generates the static website from source and asserts a clean working tree
 # before uploading the website to the server.
+#
+# Submits the live sitemap to Google and Bing.
 
 set -o errexit
 set -o nounset
@@ -39,3 +41,15 @@ scp "${archive}" engine.skreutz.com:www-archive/
 
 rsync --rsync-path=openrsync --archive --delete --verbose \
   "${src}" "engine.skreutz.com:/var/www/htdocs/www.skreutz.com"
+
+curl \
+  --silent \
+  --output /dev/null \
+  http://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=https://www.skreutz.com/sitemap.xml \
+  || ( >&2 printf "error: failed to submit live sitemap to google.com\\n" )
+
+curl \
+  --silent \
+  --output /dev/null \
+  http://www.bing.com/ping?sitemap=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.skreutz.com/sitemap.xml \
+  || ( >&2 printf "error: failed to submit live sitemap to bing.com\\n" )