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How to submit a sitemap for Yahoo!

Google isn’t the only search engine online – remember?
Yahoo is somehow neglected while optimising the blog/site by majority of webmasters. Google seems to be the favourite of many, for searching as well as optimising their sites.The reason – the major part of online traffic goes through Google and Yahoo shares only 1/4th of it.

Does that mean that Yahoo be neglected? Not at all. infact Yahoo! can bring you as many visitors as Google, provided you have a strong presence in their index.

Now, how do you make it to Yahoo’s index? 3 ways.

- Get someone to link to you.
- Write comments on other blogs and point the link to your blog.
- Submit a sitemap to Yahoo!

I don’t think further explanation is required for steps 1 and 2. But how do you submit a sitemap to Yahoo?
Hope you are aware that, Google accepts the standard xml format sitemap while Yahoo accepts the text format sitemap. This site offers you a free sitemap in all the four formats. XML,TXT,HTML and ROR.

Now, with the recent collaboration of all the major search engines(Google,Yahoo and MSN) you don’t have to worry about the various formats.All you need is one single sitemap file – in XML format.

How to submit to Yahoo?
- Create a robots.txt file if you don’t have one in the root directory.(See more info here)
- In the robots file, add this line..

Sitemap: your complete url here

Now, this is a universal sitemap recognition standard as agreed by Google,Yahoo and MSN. The respective crawlers will find out the sitemap from this line, where ever it is placed in the robots.txt file.

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ujju

can u explain what changes are adviceble for blogger.com robots.txt,According to seo point of view

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admin

Indeed Ujju,

Unfortunately blogger.com does not allow you to do anything on robots.txt, in fact you can’t upload one. They have a common robots file for all blogs.

but, you can use robots meta tags to control the crawlers by adding the code in your template head section.Here are the directions.

Cheers!
Mani

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ujju

now I have created site map for this blog(http://faxtoemailservice.blogspot.com).Now how i submit it to yahoo.com.As blogger.com not allowing editing of robots.txt file.

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Mark

Excellent article, I am doing what you suggest now to my sites below. Thanks
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Dennis

thanks for the info, it really helped me

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Anish Niranam

This is a Very Useful Post. The http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ Offers Only 500 Url’s In the Site map. if There is any other good XML Site map Creator allow more than 500.

I think for Blogspot blogs we can set the Atom/Feed Url as Site Map.

Thanks

Anish Niranam

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SEO Company Pune

Blogger and Wordpress to a certain extent are SEO unfriendly. Most websites ignore the MSN and Yahoo! search engines while submitting their site maps because of sheer ignorance.

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