How to submit your blog/website sitemap to Yahoo Search with Yahoo Site Explorer

Adding your blog/website sitemap to Yahoo! Search Engine is an important task as it greatly helps this search engine knows your blog's/webiste's structure better. This article will describe how to submit your blog/website sitemap to Yahoo! by using Yahoo! Site Explorer.

Step 1: Login using Yahoo! ID
Login to your Yahoo! Site Explorer using your Yahoo! ID (click here to go to Yahoo! Site Explorer page).

Step 2: Go to your Website/Blog Summary Page
If you have not added your blog/website to Yahoo! Site Explorer, click here to see how.
In the home page of Yahoo! Site Explorer, click on your website/blog link under the "Site" tab or click the "Explore" button near your website's/blog's name.

You will then be directed to the “Summary” screen. This screen contains high level details of the most important information on your site such as Feeds :
  • Feeds: feeds added into your website/blog
  • Crawl Errors: to tell about any errors that Yahoo! search engine has encountered while crawling your site.
  • Search Traffic: data about queries, searching trends, etc....
  • Statistics: contains information about the number of your pages crawled by Yahoo!, links to your website/blog, etc...
  • Authentication: the status of your website's or blog's verification.
  • Actions: history of actions you have made.

Step 3: Submit your Blog/Website sitemap
Click Feeds. If your blog is a blogger then add atom.xml?redirect=flase&max-results=100 or rss.xml?redirect=flase&max-results=100 at the end of your Blogger blog address as in the following image.

If your blog has more than 100 articles, then add an additional sitemap url
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-results=100

If it has more than 200 posts, then add one more sitemap url
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=201&max-results=100

If there are more than 300 posts in your blog, then add one more sitemap
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=301&max-results=100

Your blog/website sitemap has been successfully submitted to Yahoo search engine!


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