Yahoo Sitemaps

I came across a blog at http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/002421.html that said you can have a yahoo sitemap similar to google sitemap. The sitemap is basically a list of urls in a text file ,though you can also compress it into a .gz file. You upload the file to your server and then submit it at http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request .Has anyone tried this with any success?

 

I don't know for sure.. just started one on a site that completely dropped out of yahoo index. So far the sitemap url has been indexed now, but I am seeing crawling on a lot of other pages in the site as well that were not being crawled by slurp before..

So will see how it shakes out.

 

I'd be curious to hear about this as well. I've avoided the Google Sitemap because I don't want to mess with the "Google Karma" I've got going. For some reason, my rankings on the Big Y are not like Google or MSN for that matter. Wouldn't mind a tool that might help things along. Let us know how that works out for you.

-Chris

 

I am very interested in this. Anyone who has tried this, please let me know how it worked.

 

i did put google sitemaps on my forum .. i wasnt sure abt yahoo ... someone who did this can help us with what they discovered.

thanks .

 

I posted in another thread.. my page is back in the index and I have 109 other pages now too.

I finally got a response back from yahoo, which I sent off about the same time I set this up.

They couldn't see anything wrong with my site, but suggested because it was a previously owned domain that went offline that yahoo had set its frequency to spider to a super long period of time, and it takes time to overcome that.

Anyways, I have tried it on a couple of other sites now. They are relatively small though, so it is not clear if it has had any impact.

 

I submitted my sitemap text file to yahoo a couple of weeks ago. Slurp has been hitting my site like mad, but mostly just the home page. And apparently slurp hasn't been paying any attention to any of it, because when you type my name into yahoo, you just get a list of pages that have been gone for a month. Oh what fun!

 

well ive done my urllist.txt and submit and submit it to yahoo..
ill just wait for the results in the comming days

 

Got another bunch of pages last night added. My page count almost doubled again to 193.

 

Aeiouy, congrats....are these pages just indexed in Y!, or are these pages cached by Yahoo as well?

 

Mixture of both it seems.. although it seems like newer pages show up in index and then get cached later on.

 

Thanks for your reply.

yeah, cos my 20+ pages are all indexed but not cached (except main page). How long a delay do you see (if you notice) between index or cache?

Also this Q is open to anyone else.

 

I am getting a sitemap file ready to submit for a site I am trying to get re-indexed. I will let you know how it goes.