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Yahoo Site Search Beta

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Yahoo has released a beta URL/website submission service called Yahoo! Site Search.

It allows you to submit a feed of your website pages so Yahoo! will know when you make changes rather than having to submit each and every page each time you update your site. While I am not a user of Yahoo search tools I am happy that I now have an easy way to submit my site for potential Yahoo! surfers.

It is in Beta form and as such the tools/features are very parse. In fact their beta is even more sparse than Google when it first came out. I am disappointed that there are not more feedback options for admins. It is either good or bad with no input on what might be bad.

Yahoo! Site Search

Now I use Drupal as my CMS which makes it difficult to verify my site for Yahoo! They want you to upload a txt file with a specific name and that contains a specific string of characters in the txt file. Yahoo will then check to see if this file is on your domain.

  • www.example.com/yahoo_authkey_#########.txt
  • asf87afa8f78afaf

Drupal has a Google Sitemap module that makes this very easy. For Yahoo! it is also easy to submit/verify your Drupal site.

  1. Just create a new blog/page in Drupal
  2. Make the title and subject the string that is provided by Yahoo!
  3. Set the URL as yahoo_authkey_#########.txt (this would require a Drupal Module that allows you to modify your URL)
  4. If you have the Drupal gSitemap module installed then in "gsitemap Settings" enter -1 (this prevents the page from being sent to Google search results)
  5. In "Publishing Options" check
    1. "Published" (this publishes the page so it can be found by Yahoo!)
    2. Don't Check "Promoted to front page" (this prevents your verification code from showing on the main page)
  6. Click "submit" and then click "verify" on the Yahoo! page
  7. Once the page is verified then go back and delete it


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