Yahoo Sitemaps |
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Yahoo Sitemaps provide an easy way for you to submit all your URL's to the Yahoo index and get detailed reports about the visibility of your pages on Yahoo. With Yahoo Sitemaps you can automatically keep Yahoo informed of all your web pages, and when you make changes to these pages, they automatically help improve your coverage in the Yahoo crawl. To enable Yahoo Sitemaps...
- Hover your cursor over XSite in the toolbar at the top and click Search Engine Tools in the toolbar that appears.
- Click the Yahoo Sitemaps link in the SEM Tools page on the left.
- Write down the Sitemap URL listed in the box half way down the page.
- Go to the https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit.
- Log in using your Yahoo Account Username and Password or create a new free account to use with your XSite.
- In the screen that appears, type the Sitemap URL you wrote down in step 3 into the Submit Site Feed box. Leave the Submit a Website or Webpage box blank.
- Click Submit Feed.
- Once Yahoo accepts your sitemap feed, click Authenticate in the upper right corner of the screen.
- Scroll down to the section about authenticating with META tags and find the entry that looks something like <META name="y_key" content="89e977e20f8b757d" />. Write the META tag you see down or copy it to your clipboard. Be sure to leave this screen open as you will return to it in a moment.
- Type or paste the META tag from the previous step into the Verification Meta Tag field in the Yahoo Sitemaps step of your XSite and click Save when finished.
- Finally, return to the authentication page you left open in step 9 and click Ready to Authenticate below the META tag section.
Your Yahoo Sitemaps are now enabled. Once Yahoo verifies that your sitemap is active, it will automatically update its information with the latest content you post to your site.
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