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Saturday, 3 August 2013

Where can I get more information about Sitemaps?

You can use the following links to learn more about the details of Sitemaps, the statistics and diagnostics available using the Google Webmaster tools, and an overview of Sitemaps:

Posted By UnknownSaturday, August 03, 2013

I cannot view my Sitemap file. What’s wrong?

There are two reasons why you may not be able to view your Sitemap file:
  • Sitemap feature not enabled: If you have not enabled the Sitemap feature and published your Order Settings, you will see an error message stating "This store does not allow sitemap file to be generated". If you see this message, you should enable the sitemap feature and publish your Order Settings from the link on the Store Manager in the Order Settings column.
  • Store Editor not published: If you try to view the sitemap.xml file and you see a message stating that the file cannot be found, then the Store Editor was not published to generate the Sitemap file. Go to the Store Editor from the Store Manager and publish by clicking the Publish button in the Editor toolbar.

Posted By UnknownSaturday, August 03, 2013

Can I edit my Sitemap file?

No. The Sitemap file is created automatically by Yahoo! when enabled and cannot be edited. You can indicate to search engines pages you do not wish to be indexed.

Posted By UnknownSaturday, August 03, 2013

Is my Sitemap file once enabled automatically submitted to search engines?

No. Once the feature is enabled and you publish the Store Editor and your Order Settings, your Sitemap file will be created, making the file available to search engine crawlers. You can submit your Sitemap file to search engines (such as Google and Yahoo!) for inclusion.

Posted By UnknownSaturday, August 03, 2013

Will Yahoo! automatically create a Sitemap file for my site?

No. You must first enable the Sitemap feature on the Search Engines page. After enabling the Sitemap feature, Yahoo! will automatically generate a Sitemap file each time you publish the Store Editor.

Posted By UnknownSaturday, August 03, 2013

Verifying Site Ownership with Google

What is it?
To further take advantage of additional webmaster benefits from Google, we have introduced support of verifying site ownership with Google. Merchants can upload the account specific verification code provided by Google for their store and Yahoo! will create an HTML page with that name which Google can then verify. Once ownership has been verified, merchants will then be able to access additional tools and features (diagnostic/statistics) from their Google Webmaster interface.
How it works?
From the Google Webmaster interface, the merchant chooses to verify their site ownership by selecting the "upload an HTML file" method. A 22 digits alpha-numeric code will be generated (e.g., google123a56b78c012345.html) by the system. The merchant will then sign in to their Store Manager. From the "Search Engines" link the merchant enters the 22-digit file name into the Google site verification interface and the file will be published to the root directory after publishing the Store Editor. Once the file is published, Google will then be able to validate the site ownership for the merchant.
Before you can verify your ownership, you must first add your sitemap. Then you will need to get the file name to be verified from Google, provide the file name to Yahoo! to create the page for Google to verify, and then request verification from Google.
To get the Sitemap Verification file name:
  1. Sign in to your Google account.
  2. Click Add a site.
  3. Select Upload an HTML file to your server from the Verify ownership menu.
  4. Copy the 22-digit file name provided by Google.
Google will check your site for an HTML file with the name they provide as verification of site ownership in the last step.
To provide the Sitemap Verification filename to Yahoo!:
  1. Open a new browser window and go to the Search Engine page where you enabled the Sitemap feature.
  2. Enter the Sitemap verification file name up to and including the .html file extension and click Done (see figure 1).
  3. Publish your Order Settings.
Once you have provided the Sitemap verification file name, you can return to Google and complete the verification process.
To request verification from Google:
  1. Sign in to your Google Webmaster account.
  2. Click Verify this site.
  3. Select Upload an HTML file to your server from the Verify ownership menu
  4. Click Verify.
Google will check to ensure you have created the page with the file name provided by them. If Google is unable to find the file, publish your Order Settings again and try to verify again.

Verifying Site Ownership with Google
Figure 1: Search Engines page in the Store Manager with Sitemap Verification field highlighted.

Google Sitemap Help

Posted By UnknownSaturday, August 03, 2013

Submitting your Sitemap file to Search Engines

While submitting your Sitemap to search engines is not necessary, it does enable you to get more information about your store from search engine webmaster tools.
Once you have enabled the Sitemap feature and published the Store Editor (to generate the sitemap.xml file), you can then submit your Sitemap file to Google and Yahoo!. You will need to copy the link to your Sitemap file and then go to the search engines to add the Sitemap.
To add your sitemap to Google:
  1. From the Search Engines page, copy the link to your Sitemap file.
  2. Sign in to your Google account.
  3. Enter the URL for your site in the Add Site field (e.g., http://www.yourdomain.com)
  4. Click OK.
  5. Click Add a Sitemap.
  6. Select General Web Sitemap.
  7. Select all of the checkboxes and paste or type the URL to your sitemap.xml file.
  8. Click Add Web Sitemap.
To add your sitemap to Yahoo! and Bing:
  1. From the Search Engines page, copy the link to your Sitemap file.
  2. Sign in to your Bing Webmaster Tools account.
  3. On the My Sites page, enter the URL for your site (e.g., http://www.papayadayspa.com) and click theAdd button.
  4. Enter the URL for your sitemap file in the Add a sitemap field, and complete the rest of the required fields on the page.
  5. Click the Save button.
Google Sitemap Help

Posted By UnknownSaturday, August 03, 2013

Enabling the Sitemap feature

You can choose to create the sitemap.xml file by accessing the "Search Engines" page from the Store Manager and enabling the sitemap.xml option. Once enabled, a new sitemap.xml file will be created and placed in the root directory each time your Store is published
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Enabling the Sitemap feature
Figure 1: Search Engines page in the Store Manager with Sitemap feature highlighted.
To enable and generate a sitemap:
  1. From the Store Manager, click the "Search Engines" link in the Promote column.
  2. Select Enabled in the "Enable and Submit Your Sitemap" to Search Engines section (see figure 1).
  3. Click Done.
  4. Publish your Order Settings.
  5. Enter and publish the Store Editor.
Each time you publish, a new sitemap.xml file will be generated.

Posted By UnknownSaturday, August 03, 2013

What is the Sitemap feature?

A Sitemap is an XML file which contains a listing of all URLs within a merchant's store as well as the time the pages were last published. The file is used to inform and direct search engine crawlers so that web pages can be discovered and indexed quicker.
While a Sitemap does not change the method by which search engines that adhere to the sitemaps protocol (such as Google, MSN, and Yahoo!) search and index web pages, it does provide additional information that may not otherwise be discovered, such as pages that are not linked from any other page within your store.

Posted By UnknownSaturday, August 03, 2013
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