Yahoo sitemap – how to submit yahoo sitemap to yahoo search

There are some people who have trouble submitting their sitemap to yahoo or don’t know where to submit their sitemap. Yahoo accepts the standard sitemaps.org xml protocol. Sitemaps created with sitemaps.org protocol is much standard now and is accepted by yahoo, google and MSN search engines. They also accept urllist.txt through their site explorer.

Go to site explorer https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites authenticate your site by following yahoo’s authentication process and submit your sitereemap there, You can also submit your blog or your site as a feed to yahoo,

“What kinds of feeds do yahoo support?
You can provide the feeds in the following supported formats. Yahoo do recognize files with .gz extension as compressed files and decompress them before parsing.
RSS 0.9, RSS 1.0, or RSS 2.0,
Sitemaps, as documented on http://www.sitemaps.org/
Atom 0.3, Atom 1.0
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; for a compressed file the name must be urllist.txt.gz.
Yahoo! supports feeds for Mobile sites. When submitting a feed that points to content on the mobile web, please indicate the encoding of the content—either xHTML or WML. (From the Manage Sites page, click the arrow to the left of Add Feed to select feed type.) Submitting mobile feeds directs our mobile search crawlers to discover and crawl new content for our mobile index. “

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