Yahoo Sitemap

[USPB]

Is there a way to submit a sitemap over at yahoo search?

[mcaronan]

Is there a way to submit a sitemap over at yahoo search?

You could use site explorer (https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http%3A%2F%2Fyourdomain.com&bwm=p&bwms=p&fr=yfp-t-501&fr2=seo-rd-se).

[USPB]

how do I do it? its easy in google but there is no option in Yahoo

[bogs]

you have create a site map .txt file named URLLIST.TXT

[Jim4767]

how do I do it? its easy in google but there is no option in Yahoo

Basically it's the same as in Google. I assume you're inquiring about the sitemap.xml, not the sitemap.html visible on your website. Use any of the various good sitemap.xml generators and upload the sitemap.xml to your host.

Then open a Yahoo! Site Explorer account (free), and add your website(s). Then click around to the page for adding sitemaps/feeds. It's self-expanatory.

[mcaronan]

how do I do it? its easy in google but there is no option in Yahoo

There is an option there. In the home page of yahoo, type in link:yourdomain.com. After the search, you will saw something like this (https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch?ei=UTF-8&p=http%3A%2F%2Fcomingsoongmoviesmc.blogspot.com&=&=&=&searchbwm=Explore+URL). Just click again the explore site. You will be able to see "If you want to track a Site, add it to My Sites ". Click the "add it to my site" link. :D

[USPB]

Basically it's the same as in Google. I assume you're inquiring about the sitemap.xml, not the sitemap.html visible on your website. Use any of the various good sitemap.xml generators and upload the sitemap.xml to your host.

Then open a Yahoo! Site Explorer account (free), and add your website(s). Then click around to the page for adding sitemaps/feeds. It's self-expanatory.


Thanks. SO i have to use the feed option for the sitemap.xml

[Divisive Cottonwood]

Just put this into your robots.txt file:

Sitemap: /sitemap.xml

(obviously change the instruction to where you sitemap is actually located)

This in now the recognised bot instruction across most of the web. Placing this in you robots file will tell the yahoo bot where your sitemap is.

[Adpubster]

Just put this into your robots.txt file:

Sitemap: /sitemap.xml

(obviously change the instruction to where you sitemap is actually located)

This in now the recognised bot instruction across most of the web. Placing this in you robots file will tell the yahoo bot where your sitemap is.

And, with Yahoo, possibly also get the sitemap itself indexed so that it shows up in the Search Results :(

[Jim4767]

Thanks. SO i have to use the feed option for the sitemap.xml

Yes, that is correct. It works fine, and they'll go look at your sitemap.xml quite soon after you submit it.

[USPB]

Just put this into your robots.txt file:

Sitemap: /sitemap.xml

(obviously change the instruction to where you sitemap is actually located)

This in now the recognised bot instruction across most of the web. Placing this in you robots file will tell the yahoo bot where your sitemap is.
Great, thanks buffalo....are you from buffalo?

[thanassissis]

Just put this into your robots.txt file:

Sitemap: /sitemap.xml

(obviously change the instruction to where you sitemap is actually located)

This in now the recognised bot instruction across most of the web. Placing this in you robots file will tell the yahoo bot where your sitemap is.

Thank you very much.

[Divisive Cottonwood]

Just put this into your robots.txt file:

Sitemap: /sitemap.xml

(obviously change the instruction to where you sitemap is actually located)

This in now the recognised bot instruction across most of the web. Placing this in you robots file will tell the yahoo bot where your sitemap is.

As a correction to this make sure you put the full url of the location of the sitemap when using this robots.txt inclusion.

For instance,

Sitemap: http://www.mywebsite.org/sitemap.xml

Everything will be hunky dory then :)

[wacamoi]

thanks Divisive Cottonwood

robots.txt file:

Sitemap: /sitemap.xml

I will try it.

[Divisive Cottonwood]

thanks Divisive Cottonwood

robots.txt file:

Sitemap: /sitemap.xml

I will try it.

Make sure you put the full url though!

ie, http://www.mywebsite.com/sitemap.xml

[USPB]

so it should be


Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap.xml

???

[shell81]

hi
i don't understand any thing plzzzz try to explain this thing easly

[mcaronan]

Um, is it possible to create a sitemap for a blog?? :confused:

[USPB]

of course its possible, what kind of blog do you have?

[stormrage10]

how would i know if yahoo really crawled and indexed my sites?
how often does yahoo crawls your site?

[USPB]

Use site explorer. Yahoo Crawls my site everyday

[cosmocentral]

how would i know if yahoo really crawled and indexed my sites?
how often does yahoo crawls your site?

Crawl rate varies depending on the site. If you have a site where content changes more frequently your site will get crawled more often. Yahoo keeps a history of things like that to determine how often the bot should crawl.

[manpasand]

Check your site's AWSTATS for when Y! has crawled your site.

[USPB]

Check your site's AWSTATS for when Y! has crawled your site. what is AWSTATS?

[glendowney]

Awstats produces visual statistics about visitors of your site. It gives detailed analysis of your visitors and what bots have crawled your site and also where your traffic is coming from. If you have cPanel hosting, you should have AwStats.

[USPB]

is it like analytics? and histats?

[Divisive Cottonwood]

is it like analytics? and histats?

Sort of, it's based on your server, you don't have to add code to your page as with google analytics.

It usually, but not always, comes as a free feature when you rent server space.

For monitoring a website I would use Google Anayltics and Awstats