Yahoo Makes Web Site and Feed Submission Easy

Bloggers and webmasters tend to submit their sitea for several search engines in order to get their site crawled and indexed. The sites and blogs getting indexed, results in clicks when people searching for a specific keyword find the indexed site.

I would like to mention how you can submit your site to Yahoo! and request it to crawl your site. Yahoo! provides a feature called SiteExplorer where you can add your site.

There are primarily 3 steps involved here.

1. As soon as you click ‘Add my Site’, if you are not logged in, Yahoo! asks you to login. Which you need to do.
2. Your site will be added to the list of Sites with a ‘Explore’ button. Click ‘Explore’. As your site had not been submitted earlier for Yahoo! to get indexed, you will be asked to Submit your site first.
3. Submit Your Site to Yahoo! provides 2 options for you. They are:
   • Submit a Website or Webpage
   • Submit Site Feed
4. Choose the appropriate option here. If you are going to submit a website or a webpage, provide it’s URL in the space provided and click ‘Submit URL’. If you are submitting a Feed, copy the RSS Feed and paste in the space provided.

Once you have submitted, you are done with Submitting URL, Yahoo intimates you with the following message:

Thank you! Your URL has been added to our list of URLs to crawl. Please expect a delay of several weeks before your URL is crawled.

Note that in the effort to maximize the quality of search results that appear on Yahoo! and our other distribution partners, we do not add every submitted URL to our search index. Therefore we cannot make predictions or guarantees about whether your URL will appear as a search result.

Now, just wait until Yahoo crawls your site, which you get to know by checking your site logs from time to time.