Page 2 - Submitting XML Sitemap to Yahoo

Hi Fnatik,

Thanks for your reply,

I did create the urllist.txt, registered at the siteexplorer's site again because unsubscribed that some time ago and then submitted that to yahoo.
Not much to see so far, but i'll be patient. Until I submit the xml file again I want to make sure that urllist.txt by itsself doesn't make sense. I also had yahoo remove "old links" because it did not respect my robots.txt, where I disallowed some directories.
I'm quite satisfied with google. It also depends on me getting "inlinks". What I am wondering about is, how to get my images in any searchengine, because I optimized the whole site, including usefil alt tags, useful content.
Yes, I did check the box in the webmaster tools a year or so ago.

Thanks again

Jos

Submiting the sitemap alone its not enough for yahoo. You need as many backlinks as you can obtain. I suggest adding your site to some web directories. BUT be carefull. DO NOT add your site in directories that ask for backlinks, submit your site to the propper category, BE VERRY carefull: if the web directory is banned from Google your site will probably be "punished" so...all I can say is good luck.

PS: try to add your site to pages that transfer Page-Rank
(redirecting links; rel=nofollow in <a> tag and content="index,nofollow" in HEAD all indicate that the page doesnt transfer PR)

Yahoo and Google can both take XML sitemaps. Ask can also take XML sitemaps. Nowadays you can even reference your XML sitemap in your robots.txt file. You might want to check this article that explains and have examples of HTML, txt, RSS, ROR and XML sitemaps. Alternative, you can check Google's and Yahoo's own pages to verify both can take XML sitemaps:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34654
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/siteexplorer/manage/siteexplorer-37.html

I submitted some site maps to them 2 months ago via Yahoo! Site Explorer and they were all crawled within a day or two, but haven't been "processed" since.

Do they update these ever? the site maps are now substantially out of date.

we require .gz sitemap for yahoo not XML.

Select those sitemaps and resubmit, I am guessing they update the files on your server, and if in the same location tell Yahoo to look again for a new copy in siteexplorer.

For Google it is sitemap.xml and for Yahoo it is urllist.txt and you can get both the format by using http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

Thanks for nice info.

For yahoo you can give the file name urllist.txt in the root directory

creating an a sitemap for your site is a good idea. This is helpful for the users. " user friendly " I may say. google love site map as well!

Thanks for the advice. All is well and working.