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Yahoo! Sitemaps

  • January 30th, 2007

Back to sitemaps again! Yahoo! and MSN Search have agreed to use the same protocol that Google uses for sitemaps. You can actually now go and submit an your xml formatted Google sitemap to Yahoo! and it will accept it and use it for gathering information about your site.

Signing up is easy. Just go to Yahoo’s Site Explorer page and login using your Yahoo! ID (you have one if you have a Yahoo! email address or use other account-based features). If you don’t have an ID, just click “Sign In” and on the resulting page choose “Sign Up” and follow the instructions.

Once you have your ID, sign in and then enter your site’s URL and click Add Site. Once your site is added you will be able to authenticate. As with the Google authentication process, this lets Yahoo! know that you are for sure the owner of the site. You will be instructed to download a file and then upload that file to your server.

When you’ve been authenticated you will be able to add a sitemap. To do this, click on Manage, then on the next screen enter the URL of your sitemap and click Add Feed.

I haven’t yet found a way to submit an xml sitemap to MSN so presumably they are still working on it.

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