Comments on: Submit Your Site To Yahoo Site Explorer

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By: WhatWorksForMom

WhatWorksForMom — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:34:13 +0000

Hi Gary,

Thanks for all the great info on this site. I’d be interested in your opinion on the following train of thought to not use sitemaps:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/expert-advice-on-google-sitemaps-verify-but-dont-submit

By: K-IntheHouse

K-IntheHouse — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:24:38 +0000

Great tip, Garry! I wonder how long has Yahoo had this interface. Looks very similar to Google’s.

By: Matt Jones

Matt Jones — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:52:51 +0000

Yahoo site explorer is great, at the moment I only tend to use it as an ego-boost (or not!) when I see how many inbound links I have.

By: Garry Conn

Garry Conn — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 07:50:22 +0000

The sitemap.xml file is just an easy standardized way search engines can quickly find and index your content. Depending on how you generate your site map, you can present certain content in order of importance. I can do a Google search for my name too and this site pulls up. But what is more important is having your articles pull up when a user is searching for it in the search engines.

For example: On July 1st, 2007: I wrote an article titled, “How Do I Submit My Site To Ask.com“. If someone is wanting to learn how to do this, they’re not likely to go to Google and search for Garry Conn ( unless they knew me! ). If someone wants to use Google to discover how to submit their site into ask.com, it is more likely that the user would type in “How Do I Submit My Site To Ask.com“. As you can see, my article pulls up third on the list. The sitemap.xml file is a search engine’s road map towards figuring out what to index. The sitemap.xml file coupled with the Robots.txt file is the root to success with getting your content indexed and seeded into the search engines.

Here, lets look at it this way…

The robots.txt file is like the bouncer at a bar. It controls who is allowed or not allowed to enter. It also controls where you can go. (All being from a robot stand point… all major search engines have built robots to crawl and search the Internet for content).

So, my bar bouncer (mr. robots.txt) tells robots immediately, “Hey… go to the sitemap.xml and search for content there!”

Also, my bar bouncer says, “Hey… visit the home page and look for links to the individual post pages. But do NOT look for content anywhere else. You may notice that the site has some other sections such as ‘Categories’ and ‘Archives’… you are NOT allowed to go there.”

My bar bouncer (robots.txt) is the head man in charge. It’s like the traffic cop controlling traffic.

My robots.txt quickly sends robots to the sitemap.xml file and my sitemap.xml file has been carefully written to display only my home page and post pages…. nothing else! If I allowed access to additional sections, I would be simply duplicating my content… and that is a Google NO NO!!!

Search engine robots look to my home page and to my sitemap.xml file for my articles. My home page and my sitemap.xml file are doorways or entrance ways for people and robots to pass through to get to the treasure and the loot, which is my articles.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 06:05:41 +0000

Hi Garry, I have a couple of questions about this. First, if a search on the name of my blog is performed on any search engine and it returns my blog as a result, is there still a point with submitting my xml file? I mean, it knows about my blog, but is there something within the xml file that would make it better for everyone (my blog and the search engine)?

Second, I’ve been meaning to validate my blog. If I don’t correct the errors I’m getting, is that going to affect my xml file in case I want to submit it to a search engine?

(Btw, a friendly reminder to check your email. )

By: Garry Conn

Garry Conn — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:39:46 +0000

If you want the top links to be machine readable, you wouldn’t want to do it in Java Script. I don’t think it would be too difficult to do in Blogger.com. It just a matter of using CSS and some div tags. Have you seen this done on other blogger.com sites? If so, view the source code and take a look at what they did to make it happen.

By: Nidhi

Nidhi — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:57:58 +0000

Thanks for this very useful tip. I submitted my URLs to Yahoo & Ask.com.
Do you know how we can create the navigation tabs in blogger like you have done at the top of this page (Home, Aboutme, advertise, contactme). I can do this as a simple CSS/HTML code, but I would like the active color of the tab displayed too. And that would need javascript help. Not sure how to do this javascript at this point.
Anyways, let me know if you have pointer. THanks again for the tips here.

Nidhi