How to increase your blogs traffic from Yahoo

Most of you having a site have probably noticed that we get most of our traffic from Google and less from Yahoo. My friend told me about a technique yesterday on how to get Yahoo! to index our blogs better.

I tried it and have noticed an increase in traffic from Yahoo! This technique might be an old one and you might be probably knowing about it. It’s vey simple. Here goes…

First sign up for a MyYahoo page

Now click ‘Add Content’ (above Message Center)

then Click ‘Add RSS by URL’

and enter your RSS URL. If you use FeedBurner,enter it’s url. For example, http://feeds.feedburner.com/johntp

Click ‘Add’, Now you can see your recent posts listed.

Now, Click ‘Add’ again (at the top)

That’s it!

You should now be able to see your feed in a block on the frontpage of your My Yahoo account.

Yahoo will add them to its own tracking system which must be linked to their indexing system.

Wait for a few days and check for any increase of traffic from Yahoo! and do let me know about it.

Below is the breakdown of how Yahoo uses link building to determine your ranking, crawling & indexing in the Yahoo SERP. All of these relate to Inbound Links (IBL) to your site.



1) No Links to your site = NO Existence, Yahoo will Never find your site

2) Few Links to your site = Minor discovery, NO index

3) Some Links to your site = Crawl of your site, NO index

4) Some More Links to your site = Crawl of your site, Index of your site, NO Ranking in the SERP

5) Enough Links to your site = Ranking in the Top 10 of the Yahoo! SERP

6) LOTS of Links to your site – Helps you rank for the keywords and keywords found in the anchor text of your IBL in the Yahoo! SERP.

Yahoo! Site Explorer Tools

If you’re a Yahooligan, you may already know of the Yahoo Search Site Explorer Tools. The Yahoo! Site Explorer works the same was as MSN Live Search you “add sites” in with your URL and sitemap URL so the Yahoo search crawler knows to index them. The difference with Site Explorer is that you can add in multiple feeds, so if you have a post and a comments RSS feed, you can add them both in. This is also handy if you happen to have a site with say a “blog”, and a “forum” in another directory. You can add as many RSS feeds as you want into the Yahoo Site Explorer. If you click on “explore” for any of your URL’s you can see how many pages you have indexed and how many backlinks you have. Click on “show details” while hovering over any URL in the explore results and you can see the last time your site was indexed. Not a lot of tools here either, but it’s better than what MSN Search has for webmasters, and the important thing is to register all your sites and feeds with Yahoo! so that you know the Yahoo! search crawler is visiting your site.