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How to Create a Yahoo Sitemap & Submit it

Written by Amit Bhawani on Wednesday, 20 August 20087 Comments
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Yahoo Sitemaps is useful if you want your website to be completely indexed in Yahoo search and yahoo generally accepts sitemaps in text file formats which is in urllist.txt or urllist.txt.gz in case of a compressed files format.A text file containing a list of URLs, each URL at the start of a new line. The filename of the URL list file must be urllist.txt.

You can submit your website to Yahoo / Submit site feed using this link

Create a Yahoo Sitemap text file using Site Map Pro. You can either buy this software or go for evaluation version for generating your sitemap file which can be submitted to yahoo sitemap submit page.

Site Map Pro uses a wizard based method of creating a sitemap. There are 9 stages of the application. To create a quick standard sitemap:

Yahoo Sitemap Tools

Step 1: Select the first “Map a whole website option”
Step 2: Enter your website address or browse to your homepage.
Step 3: Press Finish
Your site map will be created and ready to preview.

Map Website Yahoo Sitemaps Tool

What to show
By default the site map will show Title, Description and URL. This can be changed at step 4. You can choose to show a sample of text from each page too.

Groups
By default Site Map Pro will group links using the folder name:
http://www.example.com/products/page1.html > Products
http://www.example.com/company/about.html > Company
Defining and using groups will let you create user friendly professional sitemap layouts. Group information is saved in configuration files, so you don’t have to define it each time you want to create your sitemap.

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7 Comments »

  • Abhishek said:

    Great information., all people just try to create them for Google, how can w forget the world’s 2nd big search engine ? Yahoo also can give huge traffic if we optimise it according to it. and we should giv it a try like i m giving now

    - 20 August 2008 at 9:16 am
  • Google Sitemap Generator Tools & How to Submit Sitemaps | Blogging about SEO said:

    [...] How to Create a Yahoo Sitemap & Submit it [...]

    - 20 August 2008 at 10:22 am
  • Amar said:

    Thanks all the way again.. for the post

    I am gonna try submittin for both yahoo and google

    and i hope they bring some good traffic to my site..

    Probably they will as they are the 2 biggest search engines in the world..

    Cant wait :)

    - 20 August 2008 at 11:40 am
  • Pavan Kumar said:

    I am bit confused where to submit/upload the sitemap for yahoo. Let me see after using the application…. Lets see how the traffic would be improved…

    - 20 August 2008 at 5:50 pm
  • Venkat said:

    Sitemaps are important for Search Bots to crawl your site.We can also generate the sitemaps for Google from wordpress using Google XML Sitemaps plugin automatically based on the settings. The plugin also updates your sitemap with search engines like Google, Ask.com, Yahoo and MSN automatically.

    @ pavan we can submit Google sitemap at google.com/webmasters/
    and yahoo at http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/new/

    - 28 August 2008 at 7:14 am
  • Pavan Kumar said:

    Thank you Venkat… I will check out…

    - 28 August 2008 at 11:59 am
  • How to Add/Submit your site to Yahoo | How to Guide said:

    [...] your website is of blog format and the feed can be of RSS0.9, RSS1.0 or RSS2.0 format. You can also create a yahoo sitemap in a normal text format which is a URL life file named as urllist.txt. For creating this sitemap [...]

    - 26 September 2008 at 9:31 pm

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