This is rather typical. The day after Yahoo finally indexed my site I learned that Yahoo now also allows one to submit a sitemap. The difference between the Yahoo sitemap and the Google sitemap is that Yahoo's format is merely a list of URLs below each other and not in XML format like Google. But now I can't really test it since my site is already fully crawled by Yahoo. I still don't know why it took so long for Yahoo to crawl my site, but I am finally out of the doldrums! But in case you are interested - here is a nice little freeware tool that you can use to generate a list of URLs of your site.

It is called the XENU Link Sleuth and you can download it on http://www.snapfiles.com/get/xenulink.html.

After you have generated a list of URLs of your site (you might need to play around a bit with the settings since you might not need all the options to just generate the list of URLs) you can submit your sitemap to Yahoo here:

You need a Yahoo account (basically the same account that you would have for accessing your Yahoo Email or MyYahoo.

** Update - 2007-07-15: As of 2007 this information is actually redundant, since Yahoo will now also interpret the Google format sitemap. Once can place the line sitemap : your-sitemap-file.xml in your robots.txt file and both Google, MSN and Yahoo will pick up your sitemap from your website.

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Mr Mean
written by RONALD, October 30, 2007

testing !

music
written by humi, May 23, 2007

welcome