Sofie Estolloso Hofmann Designs International

I already wrote about how to get indexed by Yahoo! on another blog. I just thought that since this site and its blog is about web design and web designing extends to search engine optimization, to getting a site or blog crawled and indexed by the search engines, I decided to write about how to get indexed by Yahoo! on this blog.

I also have written about how to get indexed by Google and how to get indexed by Bing at ProBlogit.com. I will write again regarding those two topics later on here at Sehdi.com after I finished writing about how to get indexed by Yahoo!.

So, how are we going to get Yahoo! indexed our blog or site?

Simple, by submitting the blog or site to Yahoo! search.

First of all, submitting a site or blog to Yahoo! requires registration. Make sure that you already have an account with Yahoo!

If you do not have an account with Yahoo!, sign up for a Yahoo! account first at
https://na.edit.yahoo.com/registration.

If you already have an account with Yahoo!, login to your account first so the submission will be easier than what I posted at ProBlogit.com on how to get indexed by Yahoo!.

I wrote there that you can submit a site to Yahoo! even if you are not logged in. But then you will still be redirected to sign in to Yahoo after you submitted a site for inclusion in Yahoo! search.

If you already have an account with Yahoo!, let us proceed:

1. Login to your Yahoo! account.
URL: https://login.yahoo.com/

2. Then go to Site Explorer – My Sites page.
URL: https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites

3. Submit your site for free.

Fill out the one line form provided near the button “Add My Site” situated on the right side.

4. Then click “Add My Site” button.

After you submitted the site, you will be redirected to the page shown below.

It says:

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.

That’s it. That is how simple it is to submit your site for inclusion in Yahoo! search.

To make sure that your site was really added, click “My Sites” at the sidebar on the left.

If the site is listed, then everything is fine.

If you do not see the site, fill out the one line form provided like in #3, then click “Add My Site” button.

That’s it.

Your site may need to be authenticated, so follow the instructions to authenticate your site.

On the other hand, my next topic on this blog will be on how to authenticate your site with Yahoo!.

If you cannot wait, then proceed and authenticate your site with Yahoo!.

Bear in mind though that Yahoo! will crawl and index your site whenever it wants. So there is no guarantee that your site or blog will be crawled and indexed or be included soon enough in Yahoo! search. But this is the process or method on how to get indexed by Yahoo! fast.

Before I end this, let me show you another way of submitting a site to Yahoo!.

1. Login to your Yahoo! account.
URL: https://login.yahoo.com/

2. Then go to Site Explorer – Submit.
URL: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit

3. You have two options:

Submit a Website or Webpage
Submit Site Feed

To submit a Website or Webpage, click the link and the page will be like the image below.

To submit a Site Feed, click the link and the page will be like the image below.

4. Submit your site for free.

Fill out the one line form provided near the button “Submit URL” or “Submit Feed” situated on the right side.

5. Then click “Submit URL” or “Submit Feed” button.

That’s it.

Fore more information on how to submit your site to Yahoo! search, read the details at the Yahoo! Search Submission.
URL: http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html

Even if WordPress 2.7 will be released soon, I still upgraded all the blogs and sites that I am maintaining from WordPress 2.6.3 to WordPress 2.6.5. There is no WordPress 2.6.4 to avoid confusion when someone spread a fake release of WordPress 2.6.4.

WordPress 2.6.5 is a security fix solving one problem and three bugs. You can download it from the site and perform the normal process of upgrading or opt to just upload the 5 files.

wp-includes/feed.php
wp-includes/version.php

wp-includes/post.php

wp-admin/users.php

xmlrpc.php

Kindly read the official announcement about WordPress 2.6.5 at the WordPress.org Development Blog.

For more information, WordPress 2.7 will go live at WordPress.com tomorrow. If you don’t feel like testing WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate 1 in your own site, you can take a look at it there if you have a WordPress.com account. It may not be entirely the same with WordPress 2.7 that will be available at WordPress.org but at least you will have an idea what is coming.