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For both this site and LearnCentrix, we have made a few changes to gear up for more exposure and better availability. We have turned on caching. We are now monitoring both sites and getting occasional timeout alerts for a requests that exceed 10 seconds. This will hopefully eliminate these alerts.

Perhaps more important is installing the google sitemap module for Drupal. This is now on and available either here or on the LearnCentrix site. You need a gmail account to submit sitemaps. More information is available on Google's site.

Unfortunately, the drupal module doesn't make a plain text list in addition to the XML version. Yahoo needs a plain text version to get into their crawler. A guy from Top Rank wrote an article with some information about sitemaps for both Google and Yahoo.

Well, I jumped on the lack of a Yahoo sitemap and made one. Grab the attachment if you want it. It is probably one of the quickest and dirtiest bits of code that I have done. Basically, I just did a search and replace from gsitemap to ysitemap, then trimmed out the xml tags. Also, I changed the header content type from xml to plain test, so I guess that required an ounce or two of programming knowledge. The results of this hack are here or on the LearnCentrix site. Yahoo's site submission is available here for registered yahoo users.