Yahoo blog submit

by Caroline on April 11, 2005

Chicklets: do as I do, not as I say
While it’s true that I advised against using chicklets until we could make them more reader-friendly, we’re going to generate a chicklet today in the name of getting our blog listed on Yahoo.

Submitting a blog to Yahoo is going the way of submitting a site to Yahoo. Yahoo site submission used to be free. Now, for only $299, don’t call us, we’ll call you. (Actually the free Yahoo submit still exists, it just carries less weight than, oh, $299.) Right now, it’s free to submit your blog to Yahoo. The day will soon come when that, too, will cost $299.

You? Meet You.
So consider it a priority to get your blog onto Yahoo now. You can do that through:

Yahoo RSS Submit, the fabulously easy way
My Yahoo is a content aggregator: it allows the reader to pick RSS feeds to be displayed on the My Yahoo page. In this insanely easy lesson we will pick our own feed to read, thereby telling Yahoo about our feed.

  1. Every My Yahoo page has a Add Content link. Click Add Content.
  2. Click Add RSS by URL.
  3. Enter your feed address.

You’re done.

Add to My Yahoo Chicklet
The next method of getting your feed into Yahoo will also allow your readers to put your feed into their My Yahoo.

In essence we will:

  • Create a Yahoo account
  • Create a Yahoo chicklet
  • Click the chicklet

Yes. It’s that easy. Yahoo and FeedDemon create slightly different HTML but they both work.

  1. If you don’t already have a Yahoo account, create one

    2. Either:

  2. Use Yahoo to make a Yahoo chicklet

    3. or

  3. Use FeedDemon to create a Yahoo chicklet

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  4. In both cases you will generate HTML that tells Yahoo about your blog. FeedBurner already knows your feed address, but you’ll have to tell it to Yahoo. Yours looks something like this FeedBurner address.
  5. Click the button to generate the HTML. Copy the generated HTML and add it to your web site.
  6. Browse to your site
  7. Click the new Yahoo button
  8. Confirm Yahoo’s query:
    Add eProgramming: Software for Web Marketing to My Yahoo! Home Page.

Timing

  • Yahoo can take up to 72 hours to read your blog. Wait three days before subscribing again.
  • When you click the add-to-my-yahoo link on your site, Yahoo might respond that it doesn’t see a feed. Just keep clicking until Yahoo changes its mind.

Did I mention? Promote. Promote. Promote. On Yahoo.

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