Yahoo! Site Explorer
Sitemap XML File
Yahoo! Site Explorer
Copy Your Sitemap URL
Submit Your Sitemap
Create the Verification File
Upload Verification File & Authenticate Site Ownership
Site Explorer provides optional access to information about your site. It tells you how many pages of your site Yahoo! knows about, and how many links in you have.
However, you do not need this information to build a successful site. If you decide that you want access to Site Explorer, follow the instructions below to arrange it.
If you pinged your sitemap URL to Yahoo!, you won't have access to Site Explorer. To gain access to it, you'll also need to submit your sitemap URL via the Site Explorer submission page.
You can re-submit your sitemap URL at any time. Submitting it indicates to Yahoo! that you have changes to your site, so you won't be accused of spamming Yahoo! if you do submit it again. (This is what SBI! will be doing for you.)
Copy Your Sitemap URL
- Copy your sitemap URL from SE HQ.
- Log into Yahoo!'s Free Submit page and paste your sitemap into the Submit Site Feed text box. Click on Submit Feed.
- On the next page, click on Authenticate.
Copy the entire sitemap URL from the top of SE HQ, as you did previously...
(ex. http://www.domain-name.com/
qMGy9jeF.xml).
Be sure not to copy any spaces before or after the URL.
Then log into Yahoo!'s Free Submit page at...
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
Submit Your Sitemap URL
Paste the sitemap URL into the Submit Site Feed box (the bottom text entry box as shown below)...
... and then click the Submit Feed button.
When the window refreshes, you'll see "qMGy9jeF.xml" (in this example) on the left side of the page just above the Delete button). Also...
On the right side of the page, you'll see a "Site Not Authenticated" message...
Click on the Authenticate button to the right of that message.
Create the Verification File
You have the option of uploading a verification HTML file to the root of your site, or placing a META tag in the HEAD section of your home page. Choose the Verification File method.
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What Is the META Tag Method? If you upload your own HTML, you could choose to verify by inserting a proprietary Yahoo! META tag. It's not known how other Search Engines may react. Since uploading an HTML file is anonymous, this is the recommended option. If you decide to use the META tag option, follow the instructions available after you start the authentication process, or check this Yahoo! help page for instructions. |
The Verification File Method
- Copy the verification file code, on the left. Paste it into a new text file.
- On the Yahoo! page, highlight the text string and copy it.
- Paste the string into the text file, in the space before the closing BODY tag.
- Click and drag to highlight the file name. Copy it.
- Save the text file. Paste in the file name.
Select the HTML code below by clicking on the Highlight All button. Then copy it (Ctrl-C -- Command-C on a Mac) and paste (Ctrl-V) into a text document.
Important Note for Mac Users: If you use TextEdit in RTF (Rich Text Format), click on Format in the menu, then select Make Plain Text.
Back at Yahoo!, on the next page, double-click on the text string to highlight it...
Copy the highlighted text string and paste it into your text document (before the closing BODY tag, as noted in the HTML that you copied-and-pasted above).
Next, click-and-drag to select the file name (that Yahoo! provides), as shown here...
Copy that file name. Then save the text document. Paste the file name ("y_key_71f515be1959d40a.html" in the screenshot above) when asked to name the file.
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Caveat As you highlight the file name, the highlighting may extend past the left end of the name (see screenshot above). It should not affect the file name, but confirm before saving that you have not added any extra spaces at either end of the name. |
Upload the Verification File & Authenticate Site Ownership
To upload the verification file, return to Site Central (leave the Yahoo! window open -- you'll be returning to it). In the One Page at a Time section, click on the Upload Your Own HTML Page button. Click on the question marks for online help if you need it. Follow the Directions for Use on the right.
- In Site Central, click on Upload Your Own HTML Page.
- Click on the Browse button (Choose File if using Safari) and select the saved file. Select No if you have RSS turned on. Click on Upload Your HTML.
- Ignore the error messages. Click Here to Continue to Step 3.
- Scroll down the page and click on Build It! to build the page.
- Back on the Yahoo! page, click on Ready to Authenticate to verify ownership of your site.
Return to the open Yahoo! window and click on the Ready to Authenticate button.
Yahoo! will confirm that it will authenticate your site ownership by checking this file within 24 hours.
You can check on your authentication status, or add new sites directly, from here....
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites
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