Submit Sitemap to Yahoo Site Explorer

How to add and submit website or blog sitemap to Yahoo Search Engine for self-hosted wordpress blog, wordpress.com and blogger.com blogspot based weblog. This tutorial is part of SEO Guide and Tips series.

CONTENTS

1. Sitemap for Self-Hosted WordPress
2. Sitemap for Blogger Blogspot
3. Sitemap for WordPress.com

You may want to Submit your Sitemap to Bing Search and Google Webmaster Tools as well.

I. For Self-Hosted WordPress Blog

Assuming that you have installed Sitemap Plugins (if not, download and install it first)

Follow these steps:

1. Login to your Yahoo! account and go to Yahoo! Site Explorer.
2. Add your site to Yahoo! by filling in your URL (example: http://www.fatihsyuhud.com) and clicking on Add My Site.
3. Validate that you are the owner by putting Meta Tag verification code given into the header of your blog / website.
4. Click on your site URL and then on the feeds link in the right column.
5. Type in the URL of your sitemap (Example, http://www.fatihsyuhud.com/sitemap.xml), and leave the drop-down as “Web Site Feed”. Click Add Feed.
6. Yahoo! will check the sitemap and begin indexing your site as soon as it’s determined the sitemap has no errors.

II. For Blogger.com Blogspot

1. Follow steps at I #1 & I #2
2. Put the Meta Tag verification code into your blogger.com header at login -> Layout -> Edit HTML -> put between < head > and </head>
3. Click Save Template.
4. Now, back to Yahoo! Site Explorer and click on your site URL and then Submit Sitemap.
5. Type in the URL of your sitemap i.e. the feed of your blogspot blog (Example, http://farzanesfandiar.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full. Click Submit Sitemap.
6. Yahoo! will check the sitemap and begin indexing your site as soon as it’s determined the sitemap has no errors.

III. For WordPress.com Blog

1. Follow steps at I #1 & I #2
2. Put the Yahoo! Meta Tag verfication code into your wordpress.com admin at login -> Tools / Perkakas -> Tools / Perkakas -> Yahoo! Site Explorer -> put the Meta Tag code in the box.
3. Click Save Change or Simpan Perubahan.
4. Now, back to Yahoo! Site Explorer and click on your site URL and then Submit Sitemap.
5. Type in the URL of your sitemap i.e.sitemap.xml.  (Example, http://farzanesfandiar.wordpress.com/sitemap.xml). Click Submit Sitemap.
6. Yahoo! will check the sitemap and begin indexing your site as soon as it’s determined the sitemap has no errors.