Don’t Use Yahoo Site Builder
One factor we’ve seen that can hurt your rankings … and that almost no web site owner is aware of … is known by the tongue twister “canonicalization“. Relating to the problem of inadvertently having content on your site that’s seen by search engines as duplicate content, it can be fixed by three lines of code. We explain all that on our web site and in optimization recommendations we provide for our clients.
One factor we’ve seen that can hurt your rankings … and that almost no web site owner is aware of … is known by the tongue twister “The disappointing news
Unfortunately, Yahoo Site Builder can’t let you implement those simple three lines of code. We ran into this on behalf of a client of ours this month. When I wrote Yahoo for assistance, this is the response I got.
We’re sorry, but the feature you are mentioning is not currently available through Yahoo! Web Hosting, and we do not have an estimated date as to when or if it will be available. However, we’ll pass your comments on to our Development team for further consideration. Since Yahoo! is a share hosting service, we currently do not offer access to .htacess files.
When I pressed them for more details, they were no more helpful.
Bill, as mentioned in the earlier, if you would like to redirect http://hullcogarage.com to http://www.hullcogarage.com this has to be done using .htaccess or using 301 redirect and currently Yahoo! do not support both the options, hence we’re sorry to inform you that there is no other option to redirect hullcogarage.com to www.hullcogarage.com, we apologize for any inconvenience.
[Update: If you created your site in Yahoo Site Builder, that platform has closed.]
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I’m trying to get my website to be responsive on Yahoo web hosting but i’m not sure of the codes i need to use…I tried the responsive Meta viewport tag and then added some media queries but that didn’t work and it changed the color scheme etc. When i contacted Yahoo, they suggested DudaMobile. Does any have any suggestions on codes that i can add to my page (made in php and perl) to get to be responsive on mobiles?
Hi, Tonia. You probably need to ask a web designer about that. If you designed the site yourself you may not be working with one, though. I used Dudamibile a few years back; it was a pain to conifigure but it worked. Unfortunately, that’s not a true responsive solution. The problem you’re experience with Yahooo Site Builder is kinda why I wrote this blog post.
If you’ve used a template, you might be able to switch to a responsive template. But failing that … Are there any webmasters follwing this who can offer some help to Tania?
Tonia , Bill , Yahoo has a new Websites products where you can “Easily create a beautiful, mobile friendly website. The editor is free to use. Once your site is ready you can buy a Websites plan to publish it. Here is the new Yahoo Websites – https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/websites/themes
Thanks, BJ. One of the reasons I was discouraging Yahoo Site Builder was the reported inability to redirect the www. version of a site to the root domain or vice versa (see above). Can you confirm that’s been fixed?
I have a website builder recommendation for the small business owners who would like to launch their website quick and easy http://www.vevs.com 🙂 Hope it’s alright that I’m posting this here.
Agree with you, Yahoo Site Builder only works on Yahoo Web Hosted sites. If you use any other host, you can’t use YSB.
I don’t understand why yahoo site builder doesn’t work!!??…..What’s happen?
Sorry I can’t help you, Jeff. I don’t use Yahoo Site Builder, and as you can see from this blog post I recommend that none of my clients do either. If it’s not working for you, my advice would be to have a professional web designer recreate your web site on another platform.
Informative article. When I first started my website it was on Yahoo, but then I moved to Squarespace. I just moved to a new host Moboom.com and was looking for info on 301 redirects for some pages on the old site which are titled slightly differently on the new site. Spent half the day on hold and talking with Yahoo and none of the staff I spoke with knew anything about redirects. Doesn’t seem possible that there’s no way to do redirects