After talking about How to submit sitemap to google with using google webmaster tools, do you find any special for your website? Does your traffic increase? Google bot or spider will take a few weeks up to few months to arrive at your website, if you found few changes, the best thing you can do is get more backlink to your website, possibility Google bot or spider come your website will be higher, it might come from another website who link your blog.
Now, let see how to submit feed URL to Yahoo Site Explorer, Yahoo Site Explorer is a website which a bit similar to Google webmaster tools, you can submit feed URL to Yahoo Site Explorer, and let yahoo bot or spider crawl your website.
Now, 1st you need to access: Yahoo Site Explorer http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
Key in your URL over there and hit “Add My Site“, they will bring you to yahoo login page. You require a yahoo account over here or use your Yahoo email login ID to access.
Once access, you will see the URL you added there, you require to submit your feed URL in the yahoo site explorer. Click on the “0” below the feed
Key in your feed URL into Yahoo Site Explorer, and submit it.
After submitting the feed URL to yahoo site explorer, back to the main page, and click on the yellow button (red arrow) to verify or authenticate your website.
There are 2 option, either by uploading a verification file or by adding a META tag to your website
In this case, I will choose to upload a verification file to my website.
You provide to download an HTML file, if you unable to download the file, just open a notepad, copy the string above (f0f59bxxxxxxxxxx), paste into the notepad and save as y_key_38xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.html
After you have this .html file, upload it into your web hosting (Under Public_html) and access http://yoururl.com/y_key_38xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.html, you will see the string display on this web page.
Once finish, click “Ready to Authenticate“, and you can take a break, Yahoo take up to 24 hours to verify your website 😀
Well, I try to back the Yahoo Site Explorer Page, search for my own domain, it shows
6 Page was index by Yahoo previously, and 168 backlinks at the moment. Base on the above page, what I can see 3 out of 6 are link by another website, number 1 links from 168 websites, while 4, 5 are linked by iCalvyn.com before.
My 2 cent
Before I submit the feed to Yahoo, the bot and spider actually come to my website from another website which links me. In conclusion, a backlink is very important to let Search Engine Bot or spider to visit your website. (correct me if I am wrong)
After checking the summary, it shows 0-page index yet, I have to try to check the stat after a few weeks, the number of pages and inlinks has increased.
Well, I also realize there are some traffic come from yahoo search engine, but not as much as from Google search engine
Coming Up Next: I will talk about how to submit a sitemap to MSN.com soon 😉 stay tuned
Update 2018: The service was closed on November 21, 2011 and merged with Bing Webmaster Tools
Hey thanks for sharing this info. I have submitted mine 🙂 now waiting for verification. Thanks for the tutorial…
El > The verification very fast only, you can check how many web page has been index before you submit. Happy try 😉
traffics is money..is this the only way to get yahoo traffics?
my friend said after he submit, he get some traffic from yahoo after 1 month
This post is really good! Useful information! Thanks Calvyn!
erm.. i m kinda idiot, but wat is feed actually? wat should i need to fill in on the feed URL?
panda >
“A web feed is a file that contains frequently updated information”, just add atom.xml at the end of your blogspot URL, you will get ur feed
good tips…. 🙂
i’ve done it….
just know about this..
thanks bro! 😛
Cool, that’s what I need for a long time.Thx!! 🙂
Hey do u know how to upload the meta tag to blogger? I have been struggling to add the yahoo meta tag to my blog for sometime.
you require to add in the meta into your template coding, that all you need 😉
have a nice try
To submit your site and RSS at yahoo you must need to place a meta for validation.
couldn’t submit my feed. and the meta didn’t get authenticated… maybe it is just me :\
VIvian >
do you place at the correct location for the meta?
yes, i place correctly, but the meta they give me is something like
not
so my blogger doesn’t allow me to save, but went i add the backslash, it failed authentication…
oops i don’t know why it didn’t show above….
the meta they gave me is
“” not “”
i think your comment filter out the word M-E-T-A…
anyway, the code they gave us doesn’t have backslash at the end…
kool thanks I did it!
A very nice,detailed and informative articles understandable by the lay persons also,keep it up.
thanks for share. But Yahoo search engage submit slowly.
Great tutorial, thank you very much for sharing.
thanks…for your info…
how to add feedburner feed to yahoo site explorer
cool info, i tryed it and it worked, if you think yahoo is slow to submit then try DMOZ im still waiting 8month later, maybe time to forget that 1 hehe
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I also have trouble verifying my site using the metas. First i got meta tag in upper case provided by Yahoo, then I switched them to lower case, yet Yahoo keeps saying verification failed even though the tags are there.
Not sure what’s wrong on Yahoo’s side, Bing and Google work correctly.
I’ll repost when I find a solution, don’t want to use the file method to verify.