Yahoo! also offers a number of ways for content providers to submit web pages and content directly to the search index.
The search index, which contains several billion web pages, is more than 99% populated through the free crawl process. The web crawler automatically finds new content for indexing. If pages already in the search index link to your site, it is considered for inclusion in the next update of the index.
Step 1: Adding a Blog to Yahoo and Authentication
To add your blog to Yahoo search engine, you need to login to your Site Explorer here first. You will see “Add my site” field where you need to enter your blog URL (ex. http://yourblog.com) and click the button. Easy, eh?
Now you need to to authenticate your blog ownership. This process is the same as ownership verification at Google Webmasters Tools. Just choose “By adding a META tag to my home page“, copy your meta tag and put it between < head > and < / head > selection in your header.php template file. Save your changes in header.php and click “Ready to Authenticate” button.
Step 2: Submitting a Sitemap to Yahoo
Time to add a Sitemap of your blog to Yahoo Site Explorer. Go to “My Sites“, click on your blog URL and choose “Feeds“. Enter your Sitemap name (sitemap.xml) and click on “Add Feed“. Done.
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