Submitting Site Feeds and other Site Explorer updates
Two months ago we launched Site Explorer, a tool to explore the pages from your site in the Yahoo! Search index and the inlinks to those pages. Many of you have been using the tool actively and we appreciate the positive response and feedback we have received. It was gratifying to see the panelists at Webmaster World using the tool for site reviews. We have now launched it as a Beta on our International destinations, including Argentina, Australia & NZ, Brazil , Canada (English and French), France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Singapore, Spain and UK as part of the Services and Tools.
Site Explorer also tries to make it easy for you to tell us what we don’t know about your site. To make it even simpler, we now accept site submissions in the following formats.
- RSS 0.9, RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0, such as CNN Top Stories
- Atom 0.3, such as, Yahoo! Search Blog
- A text file with a list of URLs, each URL at the start of a new line
- A single webpage
Note that for any URL (submitted directly or obtained from a feed), we will extract links from it and find pages we have not discovered already.
We’ve also added something many of you have asked for, the ability to filter out internal inlinks when exploring the inlinks to your site or to particular pages. Please try out these new features and let us know, as many of you already have, what you think about Site Explorer. Even though we can’t respond to all your emails, every piece of feedback is appreciated.
Enjoy exploring!
Priyank Garg
Product Manager
mmmmm filters :)
I concur with Sebastian’s opinion. You should also implement sitemaps protocol, since many of us have already programmed our sites from it, and that would make it all the more easy to simply submit what has been already created instead of creating something new from scratch.
Keep up the good work!
No use staying outside the fence. What we need is sitemaps
For curiosity, how is http://de.search.yahoo.com/siteexplorer much different from looking up my German site on the normal Site Explorer? Is it merely the language of the interface, or does it somehow work better?
Thanks for the tips on submitting a sitemap. I’ll be doing that in a few minutes!
Once we create the feed, where do we submit them?
You can submit your site feeds or URLs at
http://http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request.
You can also find links to this on any Site Explorer query results page such as http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&p=http://yahoo.com&bwm=p&bwms=p&searchbwm=Explore+URL
Why no Atom 1.0?
What are the file size limits for this? I have tried submitting multiple .txt files and they time out.
I have submitted some files that have been accepted and crawled once, but have not been crawled again since submittal.
Is Y! going to return and crawl again like G?
Can files be located in a directory as opposed to the root?
Good to see Yahoo! now has a URL feed, but there is one shortfall that I see. What about very large sites where a single feed or list of URLs would be unwieldy to generate? Google’s SiteMap has a method for breaking down large maps into 50,000 link groups.
Site FEED: I have 499 urls I need to submit. I have always submitted them one at a time but now I don’t know how. I saw where it said make a text file, so I made a list of all my .com urls, I put one on each line, and had 499 lines. I then saved it as urlfeed.txt and put it on my web server. I then went to free request and put in the http://www.url/urlfeed.txt and it times out every time. I tried for over an hour. I had 8 pages of urls in my txt file. Is that why it times out or am I not doing it correctly. I don’t mind subitting them one at a time as usual but how do I do that one page at a time? Everything is different and I am afraid I will mess up.
can you log in with a yahoo mail account? need to submit
http://www.emasla.com/index.htm
If I submit via RSS, does Yahoo then store this url and crawl whenever I make updates to my feed or do I need to come back and resubmit the rss feed whenever I add new content?
Thanks
S
Keep up the good work