ADD YOUR WEBSITE TO YAHOO!

ADD YOUR WEBSITE TO YAHOO!

Yahoo! Is a most powerful and famous Search Engine in the world . With several billion websites in its search index, it is a good place to include your own web pages.

Adding your URL to Yahoo! Allows people who use the Yahoo! Search engine to find your pages easily. So every site owner wants to add his sites to the Yahoo! . Here are the some example for adding a websites to Yahoo! .

These are the basic steps for adding a website to yahoo :-

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1 Go to the Yahoo! Home page. The menu bar at bottom of the page provides a link to "Suggest a site."

2 Click "Submit your site for free." If you have a Yahoo! Account, it will ask for your login. If you don't have an account, go ahead and register for your free Yahoo! Account.

Yahoo! Requires registration to add URLs to the site, but this is free.

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3 Find yourself on the Yahoo! Search Site Explorer page. You can choose to submit a website or web page URL or a site feed URL. You must use the "http" prefix before the URL. 4 Expect to get a message that your site will be "crawled." Yahoo! Slurp is a web crawler robot that uses data to build an index for Yahoo's search engine. Protected web pages that can't be crawled won't be included in the Yahoo! Search index.

5 Check on enrolling in a "sponsored search" if you want more traffic to your site. The fee-based sponsored search puts your web address near the top of the web page when someone searches. Otherwise, Yahoo! Ranks sites according to relevance.

6 Submit a mobile site using XHTML, WML or cHTML for free as well at the "Suggest a site" link. This also requires Yahoo! Registration. Video, audio and images can be submitted without cost at the "Submit media content" link.

7 Look into further Yahoo! Submission options. Submit products to "Product Submit" at the Yahoo! Shopping site and travel offer to Yahoo! Travel Deals. Advertise your business by adding your site URL to Yahoo! Directory. Go to the Directory category page and click on the most appropriate category for your business. After suggesting your site to the right category, an editor will review your site for appropriateness.

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Open a basic text editor -- such as Notepad -- and create a list of the URLs you want to submit to the Yahoo! Search engine. Place each URL on a separate line and include the "http: //" portion of the URL. o

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Save the file as urllist.txt .Upload the text file to the root level of your website, so it can be accessed like this: o

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Visit the Yahoo! Site Explorer page at http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com. Sign in to your account with your username and password.

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Click the "Submit Your Site" link. Click on "Submit Site Feed." Paste the link to the URL list file. Click on "Submit Feed." o

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Click on "Authentication." Click on "Upload a Verification File." Click "Download" to download the HTML verification file. o

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Upload the verification file to the root level of your website. Click "Ready to Authenticate."

Yahoo! Will authenticate your site within 24 hours. You can monitor the status of the request on the Yahoo! Site Explorer account page.

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Tips & Warning ∑ ∑

Keep web pages updated to keep people coming back.

A short and easily memorable web address increases traffic to your web pages. ∑ You can also create an XML sitemap, if desired. This process varies depending on your content management system. Search your CMS repository to find a plugin or module that generates an XML sitemap for you, and then submit its URL instead of the text file.

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