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Yahoo! Hacks
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Yahoo! Hacks

by Paul Bausch
October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
489 pages
12h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Get Your Site Listed at Yahoo!

Put your site in front of Yahoo! searchers by suggesting it for inclusion.

Millions of people use Yahoo! to find information, and having your site in Yahoo! Search or the Yahoo! Directory can mean more sales, more conversations with people you wouldn’t have met otherwise, and more hits for your web site. However, letting Yahoo! know that your site exists can be a bit confusing. There’s a distinction between Yahoo! Search (http://search.yahoo.com) and the Yahoo! Directory (http://dir.yahoo.com), and the process for submitting your site to each is a bit different.

Yahoo! Search

If other sites on the Web link to your site, chances are good that Yahoo! has already added your site to its index. An index is simply another name for the total list of sites that Yahoo! is watching. Yahoo! Search relies on a crawler to find new sites and keep current sites up-to-date. If a site that’s currently in Yahoo!’s index has linked to your site, the crawler has probably already visited your site and automatically added it to Yahoo!’s index.

You can see if Yahoo! is already indexing your site by searching for it with the url: meta keyword [Hack #1] . Browse to http://search.yahoo.com and enter a query like this:

	url:http://insert your site

So a query to find the O’Reilly Hacks site looks like this:

	url:http://hacks.oreilly.com

It’s important to include the full URL with the http:// prefix. Click Search; if a result is returned, it means that Yahoo! is already visiting your ...

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