How I got into Yahoo within 48 hours for $0!!

Well I wrote before that it didn't work any more but, It seems like sometimes it works and sometimes it does not. Last time I did it It did not work for me.

Anyway in short:

Make a blog on blogger.com.
Put live links up on your blog to pages you want indexed.
Make your links Live: <p><a href="http://" target="_blank">Name your link</a></p>

Oh and I forgot you have to add the content to my yahoo.

Go to Pingomatic.coming All of the ping sites.

I think he probably took the article down because he probably didn't get the SEO benefit that he was looking for from it.

 

Thanks,

Well, I created a blog on blogger, pinged via pingomatic, then went to Yahoo and chose Add content. I then chose add RSS by URL and put in this:
http://mixposure.blogspot.com/atom.xml

And it shows the title but gives this message:
Preview not available. Add this content to your page to see it.

I click on the Add To My Yahoo button on the same page and it just refreshes the same page. I still have no RSS feed showing on MyYahoo.

Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

 

Actually, I don't think it was a blogger blog before. I think he just started using the site for what it was originally intended for.

Follow your own link. It's not an atom feed.

OK. Nevermind that comment. If you go to it with a browser, it displays a formatted page. Viewing source it actually shows the XML. You may want to validate the xml, and barring that, try maybe an rss feed. Yahoo's atom support is experimental. Also, there is only one article in the feed and that may be a problem.

 

Thanks, I really appreciate it. I suppose I could add another article but I don't know how to validate the XML.

The original blog has a photo, could that be the problem?

It looks like a lot of other members went the same route I did without a hitch. I'm guessing it has to be something specific to my blog.

I'll try removing the photo and adding another article and let you know how it goes.

It looks like I may have missed the boat anyway but I've gone too far to turn back now. I rank well on MSN and Google, and have over 20k backlinks in Yahoo, but have never been indexed for any search terms there. My site is about 6-7 months old, do you feel that is standard issue? I'm very curious to see where my placement will be when and if I ever get in the door.

 

Well, I attempted the above and it didn't work so I used this utility to convert:
http://www.feedburner.com

..and it seems to have done the trick. It now shows both articles.

Thanks so much for heading me in the right direction.

Sorry for being a blog and RSS newb, but out of curiousity; is having a blog good for SEO? I did the pingomatic and it looks like it submitted it to several feeds. It would make sense that these would eventually tally up as backlinks to my site. Is that correct? If so, is there a good strategy to implement?

 

Yes and no. Most of the feed sites aren't going to pass on much "weight" link wise to you since they literally have thousands of outbound links. There is a definite benefit though. The best thing is to update your blog or feed regularly and ping ping-o-matic (it handles pretty much all the major pinging sites). Don't post two articles within an hour. Most of the sites will ignore multiple pings.

Additionally, go to syndic8 and manually add your rss feed. Sometimes the pings don't get it in there. Do the same with other sites you are pinging.

 

Hat's off sir, thanks for the advice.

 

Great work. Well documented...

 

Excellent advice on this thread. Thanks much!

 

does it only index the index page or the whole site?

 

on my experience, it is better to put a link to individual pages of your site for faster result.

This may take from 1 hours to 1 week, it depends on the schedule of the both I guess. You should update regularly your blog atleast once a day for better result

 

man! thats a boatload of visitors! how'd this happen?!

 

Will try and let you know the results

 

thanks for your tips , i will try with blog

 

I believe this is the step by step instructions.

perfect-party-ideas.blogspot.com/2005_01_11_perfect-party-ideas_archive.html

 

Good info on this link. I'll try.

 

I would love to put RSS feeds on my pages, but I have no experience with blogs. I recently installed Wordpress on one of my best sites, but I cannot figure out how to get it to add a simple RSS feed to my pages.

Wordpress has a comprehensive tutorial site, but I haven't yet found any simple instructions there how to use Wordpress to add an RSS xml news feed to the desired location of my page via <%....xml%> tag in my page code where I wish to have the blog appear.

 

Down at the very bottom of your page you should see a link to the RSS page. index.php?feed=rss2

I started a WordPress news site early this week, did the MyYahoo and ping trick, and nothing has been indexed.

 

i'll give it a go as well

 

Just got in. It took nine days.