Thursday, August 25, 2005

Yahoo Draws Up Free Sitemaps

Yahoo Draws Up Free Sitemaps: "When Google debuted its Sitemaps to allow for faster spidering, many wondered when Yahoo would do the same.

Yahoo! Site Explorer: "Site Explorer BETA"

This will be a way to get lots of URLs indexed in one go:

"You can also provide the location of a text file containing a list of URLs, one URL per line, say urllist.txt. We also recognize compressed versions of the file, say urllist.gz."

SEO Scoop flagged up another Yahoo treat - a request form to get sites crawled and indexed quicker, for free.

Yahoo! Submit Your Site: "Submit Your Site

Enter the full URL, including the http:// prefix (for example, http://www.yahoo.com) of the site you would like to submit.
Enter only the top-level page in your site, our crawler will explore the rest of your site from there. We will automatically detect and remove dead links on an ongoing basis.

You can also provide the location of a text file containing a list of URLs, one URL per line, say urllist.txt. We also recognize compressed versions of the file, say urllist.gz."

Yahoo provides a way to get a whole bunch of URLs indexed in one shot:

You can also provide the location of a text file containing a list of URLs, one URL per line, say urllist.txt. We also recognize compressed versions of the file, say urllist.gz"

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