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Submit URL in Yahoo; Multiple Option of URL Submissions

10:31 PM, Posted by Kalpesh Patel, 3 Comments

Yahoo is both a search engine and a directory. By submitting your site to Yahoo's human-edited directory, you may have a better chance of being found by purely spider-driven engines (such as Google). It's best to figure out exactly where your site or content may fit in the Yahoo structure before submitting willy-nilly to anything that has the word "submit" in it. Expect a "reasonable delay" when using any of these site submission options.

There are eight (!) submission options with Yahoo; I'm going to briefly go over them one by one:
# free site submission
# free mobile site submission
# free media content submission
# Yahoo search index submission
# sponsored search
# product submission
# travel submission
# Yahoo directory submit
# Yahoo standard submission

Yahoo Free Site Submission
The Yahoo Site Submit option is easy and free. All you have to do is enter the URL of the site you'd like to submit to be included in the Yahoo Search index. Must have a free Yahoo ID in order to do this (registration required).

Yahoo Mobile Site Submission
You can submit your xHTML, WML or cHTML mobile site for inclusion in Yahoo's mobile search index. Again, just submit your site's URL.

Yahoo Media Content Submission
If you have audio, video, or visual content, you can submit your content to Yahoo Search via your media RSS feed. Not as complicated as it might sound.

Yahoo Search Submit
Yahoo's Search Submit Express option is not free, but you do get guaranteed inclusion within the Yahoo search index. Pricing of this option varies. Make sure to read the Yahoo Site Submit guidelines thoroughly before choosing this option; you want to make sure it's the best option for your site since it does cost.

Yahoo Sponsored Search
Yahoo's sponsored search option allows your site be listed in sponsored search results across the Web. You are in charge of your position by the amount you bid on keywords, and when you choose this option, you get people who are looking for what you're selling.

Yahoo Product Submission
You can submit your products for inclusion in the Yahoo shopping index. This option has variable pricing; again, make sure to read all the information before making your decision.

Yahoo Travel Submission
The Yahoo Travel Submission option allows you to "promote your offers in Yahoo! Travel's Deals section where users search for timely deals and offers." You have two pricing options here; pay for performance (you only pay when someone clicks an ad that takes them directly to your site), or category-based pricing (prices based on specific categories).

Yahoo Directory Submit
The Yahoo Directory Submit option has a couple of pricing tiers depending on the nature of your site. Read all the Yahoo directory submission guidelines before choosing this option. This option is for commercial sites.

General Yahoo Site Submission Guidelines
Always, always, always read the fine print first before submitting your site or product to Yahoo. You don't want to pay for something that turns out to be the wrong option for you. In addition, follow the guidelines that Yahoo asks you to follow precisely. This will make the whole process much easier. Last but not least, expect a reasonable amount of time to be included in the Yahoo search index, and do NOT keep submitting your site or product over and over again. Once is enough.

Submit URL

4:03 AM, Posted by Kalpesh Patel, 4 Comments

There are tons of websites available in Web, including informative, blogs, commercial, education, government, military, business, TV show related, Discussion boards etc. Daily new websites are constantly added on web too. But there are rare websites which are come on top in Google/Yahoo/MSN for their targeted keywords. Why so??

If you have website, check is it appearing in major search engines for your website related search terms? If your answer is Yes, then this article is not for you. If your answer is NO, then you must read this.

As you have created your website, you need to announce your website to search engines and other media. Major search engines automatically crawl your website, but its better to inform that you have a new Home.

You can are not SEO savvy, then you can manually submit your website in major search engines. Below is the list of major search engines where you can submit url of your website.

Google.com: http://www.google.com/addurl.html
Yahoo.com: http://submit.search.yahoo.com/
Ask.com: Ask has no free Add URL page, However the Ask Jeeves/Teoma agent automatically crawls the Web, so if you have links pointing at your site from other sites, it will get included naturally.
AllTheWeb.com: http://www.alltheweb.com/help/webmaster/submit_site
Live.com: http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx

There are lots of more search engines and directories, but if you submit on above other search engines will also add your website.

Its not enough to submit URL of your website, there is lots of more things you need to do, that I will let you know in my next posts.

If you are looking for URL submission services, feel free to contact me at kpatelseo@gmail.com