Yahoo is not downloading sitemap

Hi,

Yahoo has not downloaded the sitemap since March 6. First day visits from Yahoo where 4,400+. Every day they have been less and less where yesterday I had only 2,300+.

Any thoughts?

Thanks.

Hello,

you can try to resubmit the sitemap to Yahoo (it is not submitted automatically).

Oleg,

I resubmit on a daily basis.

Same issue here. I wonder if this is the issue:

Site: Sign in to Yahoo!

Originally Posted by Yahoo Submit Site

A text file containing a list of URLs, each URL at the start of a new line. The filename of the URL list file must be urllist.txt; for a compressed file the name must be urllist.txt.gz.

It appears the name "sitemap_index.xml.gz" is not compatible.

Yahoo has all but forgotten my site. :(

Hello Alan,

vBSEO Sitemap Generator generates two different sitemaps at the same time - on is txt.gz for Yahoo and another xml.gz for Google.

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

Hello Alan,

vBSEO Sitemap Generator generates two different sitemaps at the same time - on is txt.gz for Yahoo and another xml.gz for Google.

...mysite.com/urllist.txt.gz produces 404 error.

The correct URL is:

http://www.debatepolitics.com/sitemap.txt.gz

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Originally Posted by Yahoo

The filename of the URL list file must be urllist.txt; for a compressed file the name must be urllist.txt.gz

Am I reading this wrong?

I created a ln -s from sitemap.txt.gz to urllist.txt.gz in the data directory and it appears to work ok now.
Yahoo has yet to d/l it though.

The "urllist" is just their example filename. It can be any filename.

Are you sure? Yahoo is not downloading mine either.

It will only download it after you submit it, and not always immediately. It will when it gets around to it. It's not an automated pull like Google. If you want it to continue to be downloaded, you have to continue to submit it.

10:38 urllist.txt.gz Yahoo
Heads up:
It is downloading for me now with "urllist.txt.gz" - for the last 2 months (since 2/05/06) it never downloaded.

I promise that the name doesn't matter. Mine downloads fine with the default name. Glad to hear yours is downloading though.

Update: just in case, in vBSEO Sitemap Generator 1.7 default filename for Yahoo sitemap will be urllist Although it downloads sitemap.txt.gz without a problem, as Keith stated:

Code:

06:09  	sitemap.txt.gz  	Yahoo  	68.142.249.78  	Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)

Mine finally downloaded after 2 weeks