Tuesday 21 December 2010

How to submit your website to Yahoo

This article explains how to submit your website to Yahoo and how to create a sitemap for your website. Most web hosting companies and blog platforms such as wordpress have the facility to create your website sitemap and submit it automatically.

Your sitemap needs to be regenerated every time you add a new web page to your website or add a new article to your blog. This way Yahoo will know which pages are new to your website and how often your website or blog needs to be crawled. Idealy, especialy with blogs, you need to be adding new content everyday. The more frequent Yahoo crawls your website, increases your chance in getting ranked higher in Yahoo search results based on your selected search terms and keywords.

If you wish to know how to manually submit your website or blog to Yahoo, just follow the following steps:

  1. Generate your sitemap and this can be done at XML sitemaps
  2. Download the sitemap file from XML sitemaps and upload it into the domain root folder of your site.
  3. Create a Yahoo Webmaster account and submit your website / blog.

Once you have created your Yahoo Webmaster account and submiited your sitemap, it will take approximately a few weeks for your website to appear in yahoo. Sometimes it can be quicker depending on how big your website is.

In conclusion, everytime you create a new web page or article, you need to create a new sitemap and submit to yahoo as soon as possible. This way you are staying ahead of your competitors and your yahoo listings will be current.

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