Yahoo Sitemap

[support2]

Is it easy to generate a sitemap with a TXT extension that can be submitted to Yahoo?

[admin]

Hello,

the recent version from October 27,  includes the Yahoo Sitemap Generator.

[support2]

I am presently running the 1.1.3 version.  It looks like a file sitemap.txt is already created in the data folder.  The only problem is that this file has the file date that I installed this software and the sitemap.xml.gz file in my root has todays date.  Why is the txt file not being updated?

[admin]

Hi,

perhaps it has no write permissions? Please check that its mode is 0666.

[support2]

No it was not 666.  I will change that.  Does the file sitemap.xml in the data folder also need to be set to 666?

[admin]

Hi,

this is correct URL for Yahoo submission. Here is the quote from that page:

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.

[Shackbase]

is this something you need to do on an ongoing basis or will yahoo keep checking back or do you know if they will have a ping back service similar to google sitemap?

--Tone

[admin]

Hi Tone,

it might be a good idea to resubmit Yahoo sitemap once it gets significant changes.
I haven't heard about sitemap ping (notification) feature for Yahoo sitemaps service.

[Shackbase]

Thanks!

--Tone