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Add your Site and Submit Sitemap to Yahoo and MSN

Last week I showed you how to submit your site map to Google. This week I am going to show you how you can submit the same sitemap.xml to Yahoo and MSN or Live.com as it is now called. In both the cases what you are going to do is actually add your site to Yahoo and Live.com and submit your site map to them. This is done to keep the search engines informed about your site updates. Please note that this isn’t what is commonly referred to as search engine submission. It’s important for SEO that you add your site and submit your site map even if you are already indexed by Yahoo and MSN ( and Google ). Let’s start with Yahoo. But here is a prerequisite for both Yahoo and Live.com - you need to have accounts with both of them. If you don’t have a Yahoo Mail and Hotmail or Live.com Mail ID you can get those for free almost instantly.Step 1: Open your browser and navigate to the Yahoo Explorer site. Here’s the URL - http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/

Step 2: Notice the My Sites box on the right. Enter your web site’s URL and hit the Add My Site button.

Step 3: You will be prompted to login to Yahoo.

Step 4: You will be taken to a page which is kinda dashboard where you will find all the sites you have submit or will submit. Check the site you wanted to add and hit Manage.

Step 5: Hope you have already created and uploaded your sitemap.xml . Simply type sitemap.xml in the field provided and keep the sitemap type as Web Site Feed (from the drop down box). And click the Add Your Feed button.

Remember we are yet to authenticate our website, which will be the next step.

Step 6: Hit the green Authenticate button on the right when then page loads.

Step 7: The Verification page that comes up is very comprehensive and need no explanation. Just follow the steps and you will authenticate your site without any trouble. Download the verification file (you can also create it), upload to your server and hit the Ready to Authenticate button and you are done. You can also choose the Meta Tag method which is very similar to Google.

Step 8: Your site is pending authentication.

Do not remove the verification file from your server or delete the Meta Tag (should you opted for the Meta Tag method) and check back a couple of days later. Your site would be authenticated and will be indexed and get exposer in a far better way.