Problems with authentication in Yahoo site explorer

Discussion in 'Yahoo' started by prettybomb2008, Jan 2, 2010.

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    I have submitted some of my site in yahoo site explorer . I got no problem authenticating subdomain blogs like blogger but when it comes to domain site I cant seem to authenticate it since I am new to this can you help me sort this one out

    Anyway here is the reason why it fails ?
    Failed to authenticate your site ownership due to the following reasons:

    We were unable to fetch the verification file (y_key_314cd5b5edc4517d.html) from your site.

    not found (http 404)

    Try:

    * Make sure the file is installed.
    * Fetch the file from your browser.
    * Check the content of the file using "View Source" on your browser.
    * It should look like:

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
    <HTML>
    <!-- 308abc618af1c50b -->
    <HEAD>
    <TITLE>
    </TITLE>
    </HEAD>
    <BODY>
    </BODY>
    </HTML>

    * If the file looks OK, ask your website hosting service if they are blocking Yahoo! Slurp.

    I guess it has something to do with placing those codes . I do hope you guys can teach me how. Thanks
     
    prettybomb2008, Jan 2, 2010 IP
  2. hem1234

    hem1234 Peon

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    Have you uploaded the file y_key_314cd5b5edc4517d.html in the root? If yes and its not working then add the meta data provided by yahoo explorer in the index page of your website.
     
    hem1234, Jan 5, 2010 IP
  3. prettybomb2008

    prettybomb2008 Peon

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    Actually that is actually my problem because I have no idea about HTML that much anyway I wonder if where I should upload that code or where i should place the meta tags in my blogger/wordpress blog?
     
    prettybomb2008, Jan 10, 2010 IP
  4. ujar

    ujar Greenhorn

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    For Google Blogger the meta tags should be placed after <head> section.

    The format will be:
    <head>
    <title>Title</title>
    <meta content='308abc618af1c50b' name='y_key'/>
    </head>

    For WordPress blogs you can always upload the text file supplied by them it in the root.
     
    ujar, Jan 11, 2010 IP