Yahoo Site Explorer

Yahoo also come out with a sitemap kind of thing for webmasters, Yahoo Site Explorer.

Eventhough it has many similarities to Google's Sitemap program, it is a good move and will help webmasters a lot.

First thing we should have a yahoo account to proceed. So if you dont have create one.

Then login to your account and open site explorer home page. There you can add your sites with Add My Site option.

Once added it will show under My Sites.

Now you have to authenticate your site. Yahoo provides a file like yahoo_authkey_xyz.txt with a code inside. You have to just download this file and ftp in to your site. If you are facing problem while downloading, then you can create a text file manually and include the code.

After uploading the file click on authenticate. It will take some time to authenticate. Yahoo promises that they will authenticate withing 24 hours. All our sites authenitcated within one hour.

Now you can add your site feed with Add Feed option.