Sitemap Instructions

• Enabling the Sitemap feature
• Verifying Site Ownership with Google
• Submitting your Sitemap file to Search Engines

Sitemap General Questions

• What is the Sitemap feature?
• Will Yahoo! automatically create a Sitemap file for my site?
• Is my Sitemap file once enabled automatically submitted to search engines?
• How often is my Sitemap file updated?
• Can I edit my Sitemap file?
• Can I create a Sitemap file if I upload pages to my Web Hosting account?
• Can I exclude products from file?
• Does having a Sitemap guarantee my site will be listed in any search engine results?
• Does having a Sitemap increase my ranking in search results?
• What if my site contains more than 50,000 urls?
• I cannot view my Sitemap file. What’s wrong?
• Where can I get more information about Sitemaps?

Authenticating your site for Yahoo! Site Explorer

• Authenticating your Site for Yahoo! Site Explorer
• My site fails authentication. What is wrong?