Is submitting the sitemap to yahoo of any use?

[yogesh]

I have found submitting my site’s sitemap to yahoo does little to get more pages listed, while in case of google it works wonderfully. Is it just me or have you noticed this as well?

[alpha]

Yes. I have around 8% of search traffic referred by Yahoo!
So its a must do.

[sudarshannus]

Yes I agree with you yogesh google robot cawls around very fast when you provide a sitemap.So I will surely recommend you to use a sitemap to your site and submit it to google

[kothar64]

yes, Its of great use to you, especially whn you are looking for local market, its of vital importance !

[Xenigo123]

Just be careful of putting a sitemap on an already established site. It helps a lot on a new site that you are just getting off the ground, but actually harms your SE placement if you put one on an already established site.

[wesley]

I've never submitted a sitemap to yahoo. I find they are the fastest at indexing my deeper pages than the other search engines.

To get indexed in google only takes me about 2 days for the home page, then it takes a while for the other pages. But yahoo seems to do all my pages at once.

MSN is another story

[joshua]

I think that submitting a sitemap to the search engine is always important because it helps the crawlers to index your site better.It basically tell the search spiders the structure of your site.
You should always have a sitemap.

[exculiber]

Webmaster often overlook the necessity of sitemap . It helps visitors navigate the website. This is the reason why search engines give "premium" points to websites with sitemaps because they make site indexing much easier.

[st1905]

When i do make a sitemap for my webpage spiders visit my site often and crawl regularly so thats why i make it.By the way now yahoo and msn uses robots.txt to find where is sitemap itself.This is very new so

put this sitemap: "url that sitemap in"

In robots.txt to make msn and others crawl your site.

[sellmyforum]

Originally Posted by Xenigo123

Just be careful of putting a sitemap on an already established site. It helps a lot on a new site that you are just getting off the ground, but actually harms your SE placement if you put one on an already established site.

I am agreed with you and we should do this with much care. Things can boost your site or entirely push you down. Webmasters do their best to see their site on the top but it is very tiresome process.

[Moonface]

You don't have to use a site map in order to get indexed if you have a good linking stucture on your website, but it doesn't hurt and can only help.

Yes, google has the biggest share, but YAHOO is still the most SEARCHED FOR TERM on the UK internet! So it is WELL worth doing.

[seocipl]

I consider with the intention of submitting a sitemap to the search engine is at all times imperative

[seomagician]

The Yahoo indexing is slow no matter if you submit a sitemap or not.