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September 10, 2007

Come and Explore your Site…

Yahoo! Small Business just made it easier for customers to submit and authenticate their sites to Yahoo! Site Explorer. Now, all you have to do is make sure that ’sitemap.xml’ is enabled and your site will be submitted to Yahoo! Site Explorer automatically.

With this feature, new stores as well as existing stores with ’sitemap.xml’ enabled will have access to the toolkit inside Site Explorer. Within a few hours of enabling, you’ll be able to locate your indexed pages and the links to your sites, as well as delete pages in the index or rewrite dynamic URLs. To double check if your site was auto-authenticated, take a look in the ‘Source’ column in the ‘My Sites’ page in Site Explorer.

If you’re looking for more information on the Sitemap feature, take a look at Sitemap help from Yahoo! Small Business. You can also read more about this feature on the Yahoo! Stores blog.

Welcome Yahoo! Small Business customers! Let us know how things are working for you in the comments below.

Priyank Garg
Yahoo! Search

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Comments

  1. Help! I maintain several accounts. I went into SiteExplorer just now to add three sites and when I enter the web address, Site Explorer is forcing a forward slash at the end of the domain! Then when I try to post a sitemap.xml file it rejects it due to a malformed url (because that form also adds a forward slash so then there’s two! Your blog post says we don’t need to submit the sitemap anymore – but how do I associate it to the domains I’ve got in my dashboard? How long does it take to have Yahoo automatically grab the sitemaps if I am not submitting them, and how can we have them re-submitted when we have new pages? I rely heavily on this system more and more!

    Posted by: Alan Blewieiss | September 12th, 2007 2:29 pm

  2. Now user can submit and authenticate their site so easily by using yahoo site explorer. tahks for providing such an wonderful tools.

    thanks

    Posted by: Web Development | September 14th, 2007 10:13 pm

  3. I am going to test it out very soon :) Thanks for working towards improving your search results and our ranking :)

    Posted by: Latex Fetish | September 18th, 2007 11:32 pm

  4. Had a bad experience with google sitemaps but will give this a try!

    Posted by: Comical Movies | September 18th, 2007 11:50 pm

  5. Is site explorer down recently? I have not been able to open the page for a while.

    Posted by: The Dog Clothing Company | September 19th, 2007 4:43 am

  6. I like what is here so far. Will there be more functionality in the future, things along the lines of anchor text and keyword evaluation tools?

    Posted by: Kwood07 | September 19th, 2007 10:11 pm

  7. I am having a wordpress blog where I cant upload an html or add the meta tag for authentication. How can I proceed to authenticate my site?

    Posted by: Vivek | September 21st, 2007 9:59 am

  8. How long does it normally take for a new submitted sitemap to appear within the index.

    Thanks
    http://www.yoganearby.com

    Posted by: YogaNearby | September 27th, 2007 2:44 am

  9. Hi,
    I had no problem submitting my sites and getting my xml sitemaps added. Thanks for the great way to get my pages indexed.

    Posted by: John McCall | September 30th, 2007 2:03 pm

  10. Yahoo! Site Explorer an amazing tool… Its backlink checker is amazing……

    Posted by: Mahesh Mohan | October 5th, 2007 9:46 pm

  11. This site explorer is a great tool. I recently changed web service providers and restructured my entire website. I used the site explorer to remove the old URLs from the search so that my new URLs could get crawled. The site explorer is very easy to use. Thanks Yahoo!

    Posted by: Gina LaBarbera | October 9th, 2007 6:18 am

  12. My site failed to authenticate. Can’t find the META tag anywhere on my Site Explorer pages to retry to put it in my home page.

    Posted by: JeffC | October 14th, 2007 3:28 am

  13. I just submitted the sitemap, I hope it will show up soon.
    Thanks

    Posted by: resim | October 14th, 2007 9:31 pm

  14. I really have a very tough time to coming in compliance with google sitemap for my website…the link of which is given above…its under construction…but I still am having a horrible time to work it out as I am also doing a programming part myself…Anycase after reading all these reviews I am really looking forward to give it a try…

    Posted by: Narender | October 15th, 2007 4:25 am

  15. Yahoo site explorer is great tool for check backlink. I will take a look another features. :)

    Posted by: teeyai555 | October 16th, 2007 4:39 pm

  16. Just thought I’d let you know that Site Explorer is broken in Firefox (has been broken for the last few days). Works in IE fine.

    Posted by: Neil Turner | October 19th, 2007 2:16 am

  17. Just uploaded my sitemap, i hope that it works for me in firefox i was hopeing to see things over the weekend.

    Posted by: Kirsty | October 26th, 2007 6:47 am

  18. Priyank thats Excellent.. Just discovered this new feature..

    I guess now its quite easy for webmasters to get their sites indexed fast !!

    Posted by: Pammi | October 27th, 2007 5:28 am

  19. I just submitted the sitemap, I hope it will show up soon.
    Thank oyu

    Posted by: tsubasa | November 9th, 2007 1:39 am

  20. Yahoo site explorer is great tool for check backlink.

    Posted by: Msn Nickleri | November 9th, 2007 1:40 am

  21. I just submitted the sitemap, I hope it will show up soon.

    Posted by: health articles | November 9th, 2007 2:16 am

  22. What a wonderful tool.
    Thanks,

    showtime..

    Posted by: showtime | November 9th, 2007 2:27 am

  23. Yahoo site explorer is great tool for check backlink.

    Posted by: evden eve nakliye | November 9th, 2007 2:34 am

  24. I’m confused about adding my meta tag in Yahoo! SiteBuilder. Do I just paste the code in the title section of the meta tags window? Or do I have to somehow edit it into the text on my site page?

    Sorry, newbie here!

    Posted by: Cindy | November 11th, 2007 9:43 am

  25. Thanks for the info, site was authenticated very quickly

    Posted by: Kelsey Murdock | November 21st, 2007 7:03 am

  26. Yahoo site explorer is great tool for check backlink

    Posted by: sernakplywood | December 11th, 2007 12:51 am

  27. Just uploaded my sitemap, i hope that it works for me in firefox i was hopeing to see things over the weekend.

    Posted by: sernakplywood | December 11th, 2007 12:53 am

  28. Yahoo seems to place much emphasis on the site title, does this mean domain names will become more expensive in the future?

    Posted by: Chris Heath | December 14th, 2007 8:06 pm

  29. I really have a very tough time to coming in compliance with google sitemap for my website…the link of which is given above…its under construction..

    Posted by: penis buyutucu | December 20th, 2007 3:44 am

  30. I used the site explorer to remove the old URLs from the search so that my new URLs could get crawled. The site explorer is very easy to use. Thanks Yahoo!

    Posted by: video share | December 24th, 2007 6:33 am

  31. Yahoo seems to place much emphasis on the site title, does this mean domain names will become more expensive in the future?

    Posted by: koreanplywood | December 26th, 2007 5:26 am

  32. Yahoo! Site Explorer an amazing tool… Its backlink checker is amazing..

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    Posted by: Radyo Dinle | February 16th, 2008 1:14 pm

  35. Just uploaded my sitemap, i hope that it works for me in firefox i was hopeing to see things over the weekend.

    Posted by: Karadeniz Haber | February 17th, 2008 8:48 am

  36. Just uploaded my sitemap, i hope that it works for me in firefox i was hopeing to see things over the weekend.

    Posted by: youtube | February 17th, 2008 12:28 pm

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