In its attempt to increase the size of its mobile web index, Yahoo! just announced that it’s now possible to submit more information about your mobile sites.
With Yahoo! Webmaster Central, errr, I mean Yahoo! Site Explorer, webmasters will now be able to submit the url of their website and wait for their mobile robot to crawl the site, or they can submit an entire site feed in one of the following formats:
You can provide us a feed in the following supported formats. We do recognize files with a .gz extension as compressed files and will decompress them before parsing.
- RSS 0.9, RSS 1.0 or RSS 2.0, for example, CNN Top Stories
- Sitemaps, as documented on www.sitemaps.org
- Atom 0.3, Atom 1.0, for example, Yahoo! Search Blog
- 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.
So far, it was possible to submit a sitemap of your mobile site only with Google Webmaster Central, good move from Yahoo!.