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Yahoo sitemaps?

Discussion in 'Yahoo' started by DSR, Feb 1, 2006.

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    Hey everyone!

    Quick Q: Does yahoo have somethign similiar to googles sitemap submission feature? I am barely listed on yahoo and would love to begin working on the site a bit to get into the higher ranks on this search engine. I'm doing ok on google and great on msn. :eek:
     
    DSR, Feb 1, 2006 IP
  2. dave487

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    Web Gazelle Well-Known Member

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    Yup Yahoo does. You just need to create a .txt file with all you page URLs and then submit that once it is uploaded to your hosting server.
     
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  4. DSR

    DSR Member

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    NICE! Can i submit my google xml sitemap to yahoo through that link? Looks like i can and it says it crawls any page given to them. I'm goign to try and see what happens...
     
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  5. DSR

    DSR Member

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    Found this by searching this forum: http://www.nuah.com/yahoo-sitemap-generator

    Tryign it out now, we'll see what it can do...

    Results: Out of ~42000 pages on my site, it only crawled ~300pages. It looks like it only crawls a layer or two of links and doesn't really dig in deep. So i guess i'm back to square one. I'm going to submit the google sitemap (xml file) and see if that helps me. Yahoo doesn't like me as much as G or msn do. I need to fix this...
     
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  6. wizardofx

    wizardofx Well-Known Member

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    No, as far as I can tell they only can use the TEXT version of
    the google sitemap. One line per url.

    Best regards
    wiz
     
    wizardofx, Feb 6, 2006 IP
  7. wizardofx

    wizardofx Well-Known Member

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    Also, please correct me if I am wrong, but I think that you
    have to name the Yahoo sitemap file urllist.txt
     
    wizardofx, Feb 6, 2006 IP
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    Yahoo is always 2 steps behind Google. I'd like to see them innovate once in a while.
     
    vetteman18, Feb 11, 2006 IP
  9. Web Gazelle

    Web Gazelle Well-Known Member

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    I think you can name it whateveryouwant.txt
     
    Web Gazelle, Feb 13, 2006 IP
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  11. Correctus

    Correctus Straight Edge

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    Nice advice given in this thread, Yahoo Sitemaps never worked for me but I guess I'll give it another go, thanks guys

    IT
     
    Correctus, Dec 8, 2006 IP
  12. wizardofx

    wizardofx Well-Known Member

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    The CRAZY thing is that the google sitemap is indexed on Yahoo. I have no links to this sitemap, I just have it on the
    root directory so Google can find it.

    I don't want this one to be visible to the public, it has no links
    and it doesn't make sense to have it linked to by Yahoo.

    best regards
    wiz
     
    wizardofx, Dec 8, 2006 IP
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    Actually sometimes RSS feeds are displayed higher that your actual site on Yahoo sometimes. Maybe Yahoo will come up with something better next time.
     
    BenjArriola, Dec 8, 2006 IP
  14. trichnosis

    trichnosis Prominent Member

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    you can use google sitemap for yahoo and msn too. you get more information on www.sitemaps.org;)
     
    trichnosis, Dec 8, 2006 IP
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    oseymour Well-Known Member

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    In about a month Google, Yahoo and MSN are all going to be using XML sitemaps...good for me...only one sitemap to maintain..
     
    oseymour, Dec 8, 2006 IP