Yahoo! Shopping offers one of the easiest and quickest routes to setting up an online e-commerce store front. There must be thousands of Yahoo! Shops within the Yahoo network and then additional stores that tap into the network through various feeds.
One of the major issues with a Yahoo! Store is the lack of flexibility when it came to configuring the server to handle certain requests. Nacho, a moderator over at SEW and the owner of MexGrocer.com, knows a thing or two about Yahoo! Stores. He posted a thread today named Yahoo! Stores finally offer 301 redirect, where he discusses how Yahoo! allows some additional flexibility in setting up 301 redirects.
However, if the solution Yahoo! provides does not meet your needs, then Nacho listed an addition work around.
We set up a dedicated hosting account outside of Yahoo! because Yahoo! Webhosting would only allow one domain per account. We set up the server assigining an individual zone record for each domain as if it was their own site, here is an example:Code:
zone "domain.com" { type master; file "/etc/namedb/primary/domain.com.db"; allow-transfer {imatest;}; notify yes; };
Then uploaded the .htaccess file to the root directory of each domain via FTP with the 301 redirects like so:
Code:
redirect 301 / http://www.domain.com/
redirect 301 /index.html http://www.domain.com/index.html
repeat for every file . . .
Then our robots.txt file so that the spiders send read to not index/follow 301, here is how:
User-agent: * Disallow: / Then you go to your registrar and change DNS primary and secondary to your new server. This usually looks something like this:
NS1.hositngcompany.COM NS2.hositngcompany.COM Then you wait for DNS to roll over and verify that spiders have done their work. If they haven't check for errors. For example, go type in one of your domains in the search box additional to the page title, spot the link and click on it. It should follow to the right location of the new domain. If it isn't go back and check everything one more time.
Finally, go back to the Store Manager and under Site Settings (all the way to the right), look for "Domain Names" and start deleting every additional domain you did a 301 redirect for. MAKE SURE YOU DON'T DELETE YOUR MAIN DOMAIN NAME (the one you did not do a 301 for).
Very good information, unique and useful.
Oh, stay tuned for WMW conference coverage, coming up.
