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Yahoo is not downloading sitemap

This is a discussion on Yahoo is not downloading sitemap within the General Discussion forums, part of the vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap category; Hi, Yahoo has not downloaded the sitemap since March 6. First day visits from Yahoo where 4,400+. Every day they ...

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    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.

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    Re: Yahoo is not downloading sitemap

    Hello,

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

    Oleg,

    I resubmit on a daily basis.

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    Re: Yahoo is not downloading sitemap

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

    Site: Sign in to Yahoo!
    Quote 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. :(

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    Re: Yahoo is not downloading sitemap

    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.
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    Re: Yahoo is not downloading sitemap

    Quote 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.

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    Re: Yahoo is not downloading sitemap

    Sign in to Yahoo!
    Quote 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.



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    Re: Yahoo is not downloading sitemap

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

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    Re: Yahoo is not downloading sitemap

    Are you sure? Yahoo is not downloading mine either.

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    Re: Yahoo is not downloading sitemap

    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.

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    Re: Yahoo is not downloading sitemap

    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.

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    Re: Yahoo is not downloading sitemap

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

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    Re: Yahoo is not downloading sitemap

    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)
    
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    Re: Yahoo is not downloading sitemap

    Mine finally downloaded after 2 weeks

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