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.
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?