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“. It can be fixed by three lines of code, and we explain all that on our web site and in optimization recommendations we provide for our clients.
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.
There’s a blog rant on this and other reasons to avoid Yahoo Site Builder that you might want to check out. If you’re considering Yahoo Site Builder and would like to consider some alternatives, refer to our strategic partners who do excellent web design and hosting.
March 24th, 2013 on 8:07 am
I started my site in 2006 with YSB and it was OK for me, until I realized that people with Macs (and browsers associated with Mac, such as Firefox and Safari) experience majour lay-out issues on my site. The support desk confirm they can’t do and don’t plan to do anything about it. Now I have to transfer my contents to another site builder software, I have no idea how to do the whole thing, I am annoyed and upset. Looks like I am going to have to spend hours on this, no, days and weeks. Argh.
March 15th, 2013 on 11:03 am
Just contact us and ask. I’ll be happy to speak with you or correspond via email. Make sure your website is hosted at your own domain name for greatest benefit.
March 15th, 2013 on 11:01 am
Thanks for this, Jeanne. It’s nice to hear from someone who’s happy with Yahoo SiteBuilder.
March 14th, 2013 on 8:55 pm
I use SiteBuilder and Dreamweaver. Sitebuilder for the info side and Dreamweaver for the shop. I love Sitebuilder, however it has it’s hiccups, which is why I’m Googling right now.
Any time I’ve had to deal with them to ask for assistance, they stay on the phone with me until it’s figured out.
I’ve got no complaints, other than the occasion hiccup…and I think my site looks pretty darned good if I do say so myself.
February 21st, 2013 on 12:32 pm
My wife & I are planning to launch a web site soon and planning to have a blog to drive customer to it. I have a few questions
February 20th, 2013 on 12:46 pm
Hi, Nicole. I’ve heard some less than good reports about all of the “build-it-yourself-online” website tools. Perhaps the easiest to learn “real” website development tool is Expression Web by Microsoft, though even that has a non-insignificant learning curve. Judging by the sites I’ve seen created by non-professional web designers, it’s worth the money to hire a professional. Just my opinion — hope it helps.
February 20th, 2013 on 11:56 am
Can you recommend a relatively simple website program for a beginner? Thank you.
September 13th, 2012 on 3:07 pm
Oh, how right you are Bill!
I was an old guy when I started building websites in 2005 and at the time Sitebuilder made a lot of sense to a non-techie like me. By the time I caught on to this fraud my primary site contained 200+ pages and would require a major investment of time and money to re-locate.
I recently talked to a Sitebuilder support person and she told me the software had not been updated for 7 years and they have no plans to do so in the future.
My advice to newbies is don’t be afraid to learn something new and for God’s sake don’t be cheap. If you can’t figure it out for yourself, hire someone to do it for you.
May 11th, 2012 on 1:18 pm
Hi, Tripper,
I rather suspect your attempts to set a 301 redirect may be complicated at Yahoo Site Builder. We have a client who use4s Yahoo Site Builder, for whom we tried to apply a 301 redirect from the non-www version of their domain to the www version. The word I got form tech support at Yahoo Site Builder was that they didn’t support that.
That’s why I wrote this blog post in the first place. Sorry to pass along the bad news.
May 11th, 2012 on 10:16 am
Maurice, thanks in advance for any advice you have to offer!
I have a friend who wants to 301 individual Yahoo Sitebuilder website pages to pages on a new WordPress site. The domain is also changing, from http://www.example.com to http://www.new.com. Is there a way to do this? Can I transfer the http://www.example.com domain somewhere and create redirects with the domain host?
Thanks!
Tripper
July 7th, 2011 on 12:21 pm
Sorry, Maurice, but as we described in a recent blog post (
) SEOs tend not to be good web designers. I think your question is best asked of a web designer or web programmer. I understand your problem; it would be much easier to copy & paste to another web design tool than to start from scratch. I wish you luck in finding someone who can help.
July 6th, 2011 on 10:54 pm
i liked the site i designed with it ok. i hate not being able to use the site i designed in sitebuilder with another host. is there a way to clean up the booby traps they inbed in my site so that i can run it on another host?