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Adding Blogger blogspot blog sitemap to yahoo siteexplorer will make the yahoo search engine to index your blog. As its important to have traffic through search engines and its possible if your blog is being indexed by all the major search engines and yahoo is 2nd important search engine after Google. Although yahoo takes long time to index all pages of your site or blog and send lesser traffic as compare to Google but still its a good idea to add your blogspot blog to yahoo.
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Follow the simple steps given below to add the sitemap of Blogger.com to yahoo
- Go to yahoo siteexplorer
- Login with your yahoo id if you do not have then get it.
- Give the url of your blog in the field Add My Site and Press Add My Site Button.
- It will take you to the Authentication Page. Yahoo need to verify that blog, you entered, belongs to you.Choose 2nd Authentication method “ By adding a META tag to my home page”. It will generate the META tag for you ,copy it.
- Now login to your Blogger account and go to Design or Layout < HTML tab. search the code after <head> section<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
- Paste the META tag , you have copied from the yahoo siteexplorer, just below the above code line. and add trailing Slash at the end of the code e.g<META name="y_key" content="71bfb7150d691278"/>. (if you would not enter this trailing slash at end then you would get xml error message when you will try to save the template.it will not effect your verification process). Now Save your Template.
- Now go back to yahoo and press ready to authenticate button. After a while you will see a green mark against your blog. If pending icon appears then you have to wait for yahoo to authenticate your site.
- Go to feed button in left side bar and enter the url for your feed.http://yourblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false
- Once the feed has been accepted , yahoo takes about 24 Hour and if there is no error then you will get a processed green tick mark against your blog feed.
- Afterwards just visit the yahoo siteexplorer periodically and check how many pages of your Blogger blogspot blog are being indexed by yahoo. keep in mind yahoo is bit slow in indexing all of your pages.
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October 14, 2010 at 6:29 AM
Hi,
Thanks for sharing this great info. Anyway, I haven't submitted a sitemap to yahoo site explorer yet but I do used it a lot when I want to know how many backlinks does my site has and explore those sites that link back to me.
By the way, I would like to invite you to visit my guest post entry at blog engage. This topics is very useful for all blogspot users.
Thanks... I would also like to ask you to comment on it. God Bless...
To our success,
- Felix
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