I got my homepage crawled. But other pages which i have put in my xml feed are not getting crawled. Yahoo is crawling just outer pages. Any suggestion?
Well, it worked for me... my blog is in the yahoo index. I haven't targeted any keywords or anything, but I checked by searching for the blog title yesterday right after my last post and it wasn't there, and I just checked and it's there. In just about 48 hours. Way to go!!! I put an entry in my blog about this, and there's a link in there to some stats that you guys might be interested in. This also worked to get me into the MSN Search somehow. Nothing in google yet.
Here's a fast way to ping My Yahoo whenever you update your blog... Type the following into your browser. Replace the full URL at the end (after the "=") with your own blog URL, and be sure to include the trailing "/" or it won't work: http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=http://home-office-furniture-1.blogspot.com/ I try to add one or two new pages a week to all of my sites, then blog them and use that ping command to update My Yahoo. I've had 3 new sites get all of their pages indexed in Yahoo's SERPs incredibly fast. Most of the time they get picked up within HOURS of blogging and pinging. And the cool thing about Yahoo is that they still serve SERPs for the current MSN (not the Beta) and several other lesser engines. So, you're getting wide exposure for brand new pages faster than I can remember since the days when Yahoo was just about the only game in town. And it's 100% FREE, baby!
wow, that was easy. Most of my blog posts are indexed, but if I can speed it up or help the process along, I am all for it. As mopacfan said, it took all of about 15 minutes. Thanks for the heads up.
I'm not understanding... did you guys already have a blog or rss feed before setting up the yahoo thing? Or you were able to set up a feed through the MyYahoo feature too? I've been trying to get approx 12k pages indexed by Yahoo and so far they've only indexed a few hundred... hope this will do the trick.
Nice, thanks a lot.. searching 'thejosher' on yahoo now brings up my blog in first place, and the RSS feed is added to the my yahoo directory.. wow. I really appreciate the tip! Josh
I'm not very impressed. . . all the hype irritated me. I expected to see the line "make thousands of dollars weekly, part-time, in the privacy of your own home". Big deal. Slurp visited.... wow.
First, you're welcome those of you who thanked me for the ping tip. Longcall, maybe I missed the sarcasm there, but if you're referring to the ping command for My Yahoo, getting Slurp to visit a *NEW* page is indeed a "big deal!" More importantly, my testing has convinced me that blogging and pinging not only gets Slurp to come around super-fast, it also gets the new page into the SERPs much faster. Normally, there is a significant lag between Slurp slurping up a page and it showing up in the SERPs. Apparently, Yahoo puts a premium on blogged pages. There could be some other factor involved - who knows - but I don't care either way. If I can post a new page and see it in the Yahoo SERPs 48 hours later, I'm always gonna be a happy camper. It allows me to speed up the testing process immensely. I can monkey with keyword densities and placements (and other SEO stuff) and get results much faster now. -John
Well, Holy cow... Those of you who checked my blog out may know that I'm releasing a new service hosting Free Wedding Websites that is supported by adsense advertising. I haven't launched yet, but I did put a filler site up, just to have something up. That site is now ranked #11 for Free Wedding Web Sites on Yahoo. Now I'm under a little pressure to get this thing done! The file dates show me that I uploaded that site on January 1. (www.bkweddings.com). Thanks for the tip. I figured it would take a while in order to get it ranked, so starting a blog seemed like a good idea to start right away. The spiders got me, and now there are several pages indexed, not just the blog. Looks like it's still not ranked in google though, although there are two pages indexed so far. Update: Just checked "Free Wedding Web Sites" in google with the quotes and the site came up #10 out of about 4,000 sites - not competitive, but really I haven't done any SEO, just threw up some sample text to work with later. In addition, I'm sure the blog links from this forum are helping out. The only person I've mentioned this site to myself is my partner, so I don't have any friends putting up links or anything like that.
If you want to ping more than just Yahoo, use http://www.pingomatic.com - sorry, I'm not aloud to post a live link!
pingomatic is actually a default pinger in wordpress. I think you recommended them in your blog entry.
do you guys think that this will help someone that already has had a few hundred pages indexed but needs them to index thousands more? Seems like this might just help smaller sites get found and get a few pages spidered. What do you think?
yeah... it will take longer than that cause I'll have to make a RSS feed first. Any advice as to where to get started with this?
They are separate bots, so unless you have thousands of blog posts to get indexed, I would doubt it...unless you had links to them on those pages maybe. This just came by and grabbed one of the feeds I put in my my.yahoo.com account this weekend: YahooFeedSeeker/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; (Link: http://my.yahoo.com/s/publishers.html)http://my.yahoo.com/s/publishers.html)