How to Submit Sitemap to Yahoo Site Explorer

Site Explorer allows you to explore all the your blog pages indexed by Yahoo Search. You can also view the most popular pages, dive into a comprehensive site map and find pages that link to your blog. Read more about Yahoo Site Explorer here.

This tutorial explains how to add your website or blog sitemap or RSS feed to Yahoo Site Explorer. You just need a Yahoo account to add these to the Site Explorer with the simple steps given below:

1. Sign-in to Yahoo Site Explorer using your yahoo account.
2. Type your site URL as shown in the image below and click Add My Site.



3. Add the sitemap/RSS Feed of your site by clicking Feeds from the left menu.



Type your Feed URL in the space provided and click Add Feed.

Example:


You can use any one the following feed URLs:
For WordPress blogs:

http://www.yoursite.com/feed

http://yoursite.wordpress.com/feed

For Blogger blogs:

http://www.yoursite.com/rss.xml

http://www.yoursite.com/feeds/posts/default

http://yoursite.blogspot.com/rss.xml

http://yoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

You should see your sitemap/feed listed in Feeds section as shown below:


4. Next you need to authenticate your site by going to Authentication from the left menu. You will be having two options for this:
1. By uploading a verification file to your site
2. By adding a META tag to your home page

Example – By adding a META tag to my home page

Click on By adding a META tag to my home page and copy the META TAGS provided to you:




5. Paste the Meta Tag in the header section of your site template.

Blogger Users:

• Go to Blogger Dashboard – Design – Edit HTML- then paste the Meta Tag just below the following line in the top header section and save the template:

  <b:include data="blog" name="all-head-content"/>

  WordPress Users:
  Paste the Meta Tag in the Header.php file under Theme Editor and save the template.

6. Finally, click Ready to Authenticate to complete the procedure!

It may take up to 24 hours to get your site authenticated.

Also check: Submit Sitemap to Google Webmaster

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9 Responsesto “How to Submit Sitemap to Yahoo Site Explorer”

1. teratips says:

   July 12, 2009 at 6:15 pm

   Great i read at all, thanks
2. Princely samuel says:

   July 26, 2009 at 4:41 pm

   really nice.works perfect for my bloand my blog is comptechtips.blogspot.com
3. Punsons Flora says:

   December 14, 2009 at 1:50 pm

   Very interesting. i wnna do it…
4. Mr.Key says:

   January 22, 2010 at 2:12 pm

   error my blog
5. Shafar@TipsBlogger says:

   January 22, 2010 at 5:22 pm

   @Key
   What error message you got?
6. zoy says:

   January 28, 2010 at 1:32 pm

   Thanks! I didn`t know that. One more step to go!
   http://insomniaalmanac.blogspot.com
   http://dodgedepression.blogspot.com
7. fred says:

   June 6, 2011 at 3:19 pm

   Failed to authenticate your site ownership due to the following reasons:

   * We looked for the Meta tag on your site’s home page: http://www.thefilipinochannel.co.cc. We did not find the meta key 02b64e725215bc37 in the page.

   Error: Key found but position limit exceeded

   Try:
   o Fetch the page from your browser.
   o Check the content of the file using “View Source” on your browser.
   o Check that the Meta Tag is in the source of the page.
   o Check that the Meta Tag is AFTER the first tag.
   o Check that the Meta Tag is BEFORE the first tag.
   *
   We were unable to fetch the verification file (y_key_268cbe35116e6bc7.html) from your site.

   Error: not found (http 404)

   Try:
   o Make sure the file is installed.
   o Fetch the file from your browser.
   o Check the content of the file using “View Source” on your browser.
   o It should look like:

   o If the file looks OK, ask your website hosting service if they are blocking Yahoo! Slurp.

   Retry Authentication
8. Shafar says:

   June 7, 2011 at 9:09 pm

   @fred
   There is no scope for any error if you read and do all the steps properly. If you are still getting the error, try again after changing your theme.
9. Eric says:

   August 27, 2011 at 12:21 am

   I wish I had known this when I started my site six months ago. I was checking my indexed pages on Yahoo and I only had one. So today I finally registered and verified, stupid me! Thanks for the info.