Optimizing your website for Yahoo! search is not much different than optimizing for Google. For starters, both search engines use the same sitemap format.
You can use a simple bots.txt file to direct Yahoo! to the sitemap that you are using for Google. But, the best way to get Yahoo! to your sitemap is to [...]
Yahoo! offers you the chance to get your site considered for inclusion in Yahoo! search results for free.
To submit your site to Yahoo!, you need to be logged into your Yahoo! account.
Once logged in, go to https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
You can submit your site and your feed on this page, but you can’t submit them simultaneously.
For whatever reason, you may have the need to beg Google to include your site in its search engine results again. You can request reconsideration by clicking the Request Reconsideration link in your Google Webmaster Tools account. Just fill out the form and anxiously wait to hear back from Google.
Seriously, though, I wouldn’t anxiously wait [...]
That’s been the longest week of my life. I wonder what was going on with Google.
The next time my blog suddenly stops being listed in Google, I’ll remember to just chill and not freak out like I did this week.
What in the world (wide web - he he) is going on with Google and Ping-O-Matic?
I’ve tested Google and Ping-O-Matic’s pinging services for my WordPress blogs for several days, and cannot seem to get anything indexed. Do any fellow webmasters know if Google is changing their algorithm or if Ping-O-Matic is broken - again?
Go to your Dashboard and click on the Verify link for the site that you want to verify.
Choose the Add a meta tag method from the dropdown box.
A meta tag will appear. Copy that text and put it in the head section of your site’s index page.
You have the option to verify your site [...]
Okay, I admit that I don’t know much about search engine optimization, let alone Google. But, it just strikes me as odd that a few days ago, every blog entry that I posted was indexed in Google. Now, anytime I make a blog entry and check Google to see if it’s there, it’s not.
I [...]