| Every webmaster knows that the free search | | | | |
| engines are a major source of traffic.They | | | | Sorry, we're not done yet... |
| also know that applying all the SEO | | | | |
| techniques in the world will not in itself | | | | |
| get their web pages spidered, indexed and | | | | |
| listed. Yes, sure, a "perfect" page, once | | | | Now you have to go to and open a My Yahoo! |
| indexed and listed will surely rank high for | | | | account. Just follow Yahoo's very clear |
| its keywords but unless it is found by the | | | | instructions. |
| spiders, it is pretty useless.It is no secret | | | | |
| that the process of a web page being found by | | | | Click on the 'Add Content' button. |
| the spiders can be helped by placing links to | | | | |
| that web site on other web sites (e.g. by | | | | Click the ' Add RSS by URL' link. |
| doing a links exchange with other web sites, | | | | |
| by putting one's URL in one's signature file | | | | Paste the 'Site Feed URL' you've copied |
| when posting on a forum, by writing and | | | | earlier in the 'URL' field and |
| submitting articles for free distribution and | | | | |
| placing one's URL in the author's resource | | | | hit 'Add' |
| block etc.) All of this will surely work but | | | | |
| it can take months before anything happens. | | | | |
| The webmaster has no option but to be patient | | | | |
| and wait...and wait...and wait.Now there is | | | | You have just added your site's news feed to |
| something very easy and very effective one | | | | your My Yahoo! account.Mmm, you don't know |
| can do to speed up this process. Actually, | | | | what a news feed is? I've written a document |
| using this method, will get a web page | | | | explaining it all. You can read it here. |
| indexed and listed in less than 48 hours. | | | | |
| And the whole process is controlled by the | | | | |
| webmaster. It is easy, fast in terms of | | | | |
| setting it all up and what's more it is | | | | Last step: go to |
| free!Here is what one does: | | | | |
| | | | Enter your blog's name and URL (similar to |
| | | | mine: |
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| Go to and sign up for a new account (free - | | | | Select all the services to ping (of which My |
| they even host the blog on their server at no | | | | Yahoo! is one) and click the 'Submit Pings' |
| cost) | | | | button. |
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| Give your blog a name. | | | | Navigate back to your My Yahoo! account and |
| | | | refresh your browser. |
| Navigate to 'Settings' and then choose 'Site | | | | |
| Feed' | | | | Scroll to the bottom of the page where |
| | | | you'll see your blog's feed appearing. |
| Check that the 'Publish Site Feed' option is | | | | |
| set to 'Yes' | | | | |
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| Copy the 'Site Feed URL' to the clip board | | | | Your job is done - the spider bait is |
| (you can paste is some where .. you're going | | | | ready!Now for a bit of excitement. Start |
| to use it when you've set up your my.yahoo | | | | watching your web site's stat's to see how |
| account) | | | | quickly the spiders find their way to your |
| | | | web site. You could even throw a free stats |
| Save your changes | | | | counter on your blog and watch the spiders |
| | | | visiting your blog.Next step: Play |
| Navigate to 'Posting' and create your first | | | | "blog-and-ping" every day or so. More often |
| entry. | | | | if you have the time! Whenever you feel like |
| | | | it, add another posting to your blog. |
| What should you write? Anything, actually - | | | | Remember to throw in some links to specific |
| your words do not make that much of a | | | | pages on your web site.Let me know how |
| difference. What is important is that you | | | | successful you were - leave a comment in my |
| add the URL of each page you want listed to | | | | blog or use my Contact Us page on my web |
| the blog. Remember to add them as live links | | | | site.Here's to your success! |
| (to enable all the spiders to follow | | | | |
| them!)Mmm, you don't know how to do a live | | | | Kind Regards |
| link? Here is an example. Just copy the | | | | |
| HTML codelink to Perfect Party IdeasReplace | | | | Anne-Marie |
| the URL with your URL and the description | | | | |
| ("link to Perfect Party Ideas" with your | | | | P.S. If this article had any value to you |
| own.As a suggestion, why not make your blog a | | | | (and I'm sure it did ;-) ), why not read more |
| log of this experiment? | | | | hot tips in my blog?Anne-Marie Killer is a |
| | | | mother of two teenagers and a toddler. She is |
| Publish your blog by hitting the 'Publish' | | | | the webmaster and owner of Perfect Party |
| button. | | | | Ideas, Read her blog where she documents the |
| | | | process of setting up Perfect Party Ideas. |
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