An Insider`s Secret To Seriously High Rankings With Yahoo - Why RSS?
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You see, by creating your site in such a way that it has an RSS feed of its own (and is therefore considered a "blog" or "weblog" by Yahoo), you can get your site indexed by Yahoo very quickly.
We've all heard that a site with a lot of keyword rich content is a deciding factor to how well your site is ranked. This is particularly true with Yahoo. The problem, however, is that it can take a long time for you to create a lot of content, and even longer to get your site ranked. To make matters worse, I've heard recently that search engines (such as Yahoo) will actually rank you
lower if you utilize search engine submission tools ... even their own! In other words, if your site can't be found by their spider, and you are forced to "submit" your site for it to be found, you get a lower ranking
right off the bat, no matter how much content you have and no matter how relevant it is.
So it seems important to find some way for Yahoo's spider to find your site "on its own." That "way" is with RSS.
Now once your RSS file is completed (you can easily create one for your website by hand), you aren't done quite yet. What you then need to do is hop on over to your MyYahoo page (and if you don't have one, create one), and add your RSS file into your MyYahoo content.
As soon as you do that, you have added an entry to the
top of Yahoo's spider queue. Your site will be indexed within 24 hours and will show up on search results within 72 hours. Further, the simple fact that the Yahoo spider found you the way it did will give you a higher ranking than if the spider finds you via "regular" mechanisms. In other words, Yahoo's search algorithm rates sites with RSS feeds
higher than it does sites without them.
It really is that simple.
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