Are you the owner of
a .yu domain? Then you might have heard the news: as of September 30,
all .yu domains will stop working, regardless of their renewal date. This means that any content you're hosting on a .yu domain will no longer be online. For those of you who would still like to have your site online, we've prepared some recommendations to make sure that Google keeps crawling, indexing, and serving your content appropriately.
While you're moving your site, you can test how Google crawls and indexes your new site at its new location by
submitting a Sitemap via Google Webmaster Tools. Although we may not crawl or index all the pages listed in each Sitemap, we recommend that you submit one because doing so helps Google understand your site better. You can read more on this topic in our answers to the most
frequently asked questions on Sitemaps. And remember that for any question or concerns we're waiting for you in the
Google Webmaster Help Forum!
Update: as mentioned
here, we have introduced a new feature:
Change of Address. Check it out if you are moving from one domain to another! By using this feature you will help us update our index faster and hopefully make the transition for your users smoother.
Written by Luisella Mazza, Search Quality Senior Analyst
