No search results in Yahoo

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No search results in Yahoo

I have great results in Google, but yahoo behaves quite different. For example, Joe Gramm in Google, produces all the results I could ask for and fast. Changes show up almost right after I resubmit a sitemap. Yahoo on the other hand, finds virtually nothing on Joe Gramm, until I put joegramm as the search. Then it finds a few things. Again, with my business, it finds all my pages by key words. Yahoo nothing. It's been a few months since I've submitted the sitemap. So before I delete the sitemap from Yahoo all together, I thought I'd ask a few questions. I'm using the same sitemap for Google and Yahoo. Do I need a different type of sitemap for Yahoo?

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Posted on Mar 22, 2008 2:42 PM

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Answer 1

Roddy

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Mar 22, 2008 8:14 PM in response to Joe Gramm

Did you enter your URL here .......

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit

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Answer 2

Joe Gramm Author

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Mar 22, 2008 8:48 PM in response to Roddy

Roddy, I have done that twice. In the submit a website, I submitted 2 ways. One with my domain.com and the other with web.mac.com/user/site/page.html. In the submit site feed, I've submitted as web.mac.com/user/site/sitemap.xml.

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Roddy

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Mar 23, 2008 8:35 AM in response to Joe Gramm

The URL for the sitemap submission will be ....

http://web.mac.com/user/site/

... just the same as you would submit to Google. They're already looking for sitemap.xml and the above is the URL that will take them there.

I did submit manually to Yahoo so I know it works but, now that I am using RAGE Sitemap Automator, it gives me one click submission to Google, Yahoo and Ask.com.

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Joe Gramm Author

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Mar 23, 2008 10:51 AM in response to Roddy

Roddy,
Based on what you said, I'll give it another go. When I make changes to my sites and I create a new sitemap (I use iMap), it pings Google. What I've been doing is logging into Google Webmaster Tools and resubmit the sitemap. Do I need to do that or does the ping take care of that. And does it work the same way with RAGE.

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Answer 5

Roddy

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Mar 23, 2008 11:00 AM in response to Joe Gramm

I really don't know about iMap as I only tried it once a while ago and didn't think much of it it. I would assume that once you have uploaded your new site map the "pinging" should notify Google. You should ask the developer that question!
Rage Sitemap Automator has a "notify search engines" button which takes care of the notification and verification. It also uploads and tests your sitemap from the application.

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Answer 6

Joe Gramm Author

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Mar 23, 2008 11:29 AM in response to Roddy

Roddy,
Thanks, I think I'll try Rage.

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Answer 7

Akdream

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Mar 23, 2008 1:06 PM in response to Joe Gramm

JFYI Google has about 70% marketshare...

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Answer 8

Joe Gramm Author

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Mar 23, 2008 1:39 PM in response to Akdream

I realize that, and that's why I'm not sure if I even want to bother. When I look on Yahoo to see when my site was crawled, it could be many days. Google on the other hand is very often & is great at finding errors, so I can correct them before it interferes with finding me. It seems like Google cares about getting your info out there. But, I'll keep at it. Thanks for that reminder.

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