In my previous post, How to Add Google Sitemap to WordPress.com Blog?, I talked about how you can submit a Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools. Yahoo! Site Explorer has similar services too. If you are interested, type your URL (World Wide Web address) in the text field and click on Add My Site button. Then it will lead you to Yahoo! Sign UP page. From there, you have two choices. If you already have a Yahoo! account, then you may just sign in; if you don’t have a Yahoo! account, then you have to sign up one here.
Once you are inside, you can see that your URL has been added. Now you have to submit your blog feed to Yahoo! by clicking on Authenticate button. It will lead you to a new page. You can see your authentication key like y_key_82890f6bb720e757.html and a string like 038ccdf3a8dff73a. You have two options to authenticate your blog there:
- to upload a verification file to your site or
- to add a META tag to your home page.
Since you know you can’t add a META tag to your home page if you own a WordPress.com blog. That is because you don’t have privileges to access your home page’s HTML file. Therefore you have to create a new page from Write/Page WordPress.com Dashboard . You can name whatever title you want, but make sure its permalink looks like this: http://yoursitename.wordpress.com/y_key_82890f6bb720e757.html. Make sure you replace yoursitename with your own site name and y_key_82890f6bb720e757.html with your own authenticate key.
Yahoo! Site Explorer also tells you to put your string into the new page you’ve just created. Click Ready to Authenticate button. It will show you a new page saying “Your site is pending authentication”. Check it later to make sure your site’s status is OK. If it is, then congratulations! You just successfully added your feed to Yahoo!. Make sure you check your Yahoo! Site Explorer regularly. It will report back to you if anything goes wrong.
Update: You can keep the new page you’ve created privately once it is authenticated. Keep in mind that you need to authenticate it again if you see failed button showing up on the status of your blog/website.
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billbennettnz // August 18, 2008 at 1:04 am |
Impressive work. I’ve just spent 30 minutes getting my blog and my personal home site authenticated on Yahoo and Google — something I’ve been struggling to do for days.
Lanna // August 18, 2008 at 10:32 pm |
Hello Bill;
Thanks for visiting.
Did you get through of submitting your blog and other site to Yahoo and Google? Good luck to you!
billbennettnz // August 25, 2008 at 11:18 pm |
The Google process worked fine. The yahoo process failed because Yahoo didn’t manage to download the verification file.
billbennettnz // August 25, 2008 at 11:35 pm |
Opps, should have mentioned. The verficiation page IS there. Yahoo just couldn’t find it.
Lanna // August 25, 2008 at 11:38 pm |
Yes. It worked when I first submitted to Yahoo.
Since I kept the verification file private, I need to resubmit to Yahoo every time when it requires it again. Lately I was out of luck, I could not resubmit it to Yahoo any more. It always came back with the result of “failed”. I thought something must be wrong with my method, now I am sure it is not in my part.
billbennettnz // August 29, 2008 at 1:31 am |
Yes, it’s definitely not working. I just went through the whole process a second time and it failed. I’m not sure what could be causing it to fail — any ideas?
Also, as an aside. the pages gadget in my sidebar now looks pretty ugly with those Yahoo and Google authentication page links.
billbennettnz // August 29, 2008 at 2:09 am |
OK. I’ve done some more research and it appears that Yahoo automatically indexes WordPress.com sites, so it seems authentification isn’t necessary.
fornetti // August 31, 2008 at 10:35 am |
I do not believe this
Lanna // August 31, 2008 at 12:18 pm |
Bill, I hope you are right about “… it seems authentification isn’t necessary.”
And Fornetti, it is a personal decision so it is up to you to believe it or not.
I think submitting your blog/website to those big engines will certainly help indexing your blog/website thoroughly.
I’ve been doing well with all my blog/website after all. Just check this blog: it started in mid April and now it has Google’s PageRank of 4 in about 4 months.
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mumtazanas // February 7, 2009 at 7:07 pm |
I already try but failed. In wordpress we couldn’t make [dot]html right? we just use /
Please advise
mister2mike // May 21, 2009 at 4:49 pm |
this is nice. thanks!
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Thank you for the above tutorial but beside wordpress.com, Can you advise how to submit squidoo lens to yahoo?
Lanna // August 31, 2009 at 11:27 pm |
Thanks for visiting!
Sorry but I don’t even have Squidoo lens. Maybe one day after I experience it, I might write about it.
Vyan RH // September 9, 2009 at 11:15 am |
Nice info, so that is like google verification html code.
Great thank yuo.
Email Marketing Tools // October 15, 2009 at 1:10 am |
Interesting article. .It’s very useful for SEO beginners….