RSS & Yahoo :: Enter ’round back!
December 13th, 2006 by admin
Why wait to get your website indexed by Yahoo. 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 (my FlashEditor has it built in), 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.
You may already be using my FlashEditor. If this is the case then just let me know you want your RSS activated. I will setup RSS feeds on your site.
View sample site: http://otterproductionsinc.com/ (Look for the RSS icon at the bottom of the page)
If you do not have my Flash Editor installed then simply contact me and we’ll discuss what it takes to get you up to speed with RSS.
Want more info on RSS but don’t have time to Google it? Just call and we’ll chat about it.
What can RSS do for you? RSS enables visitors to your site to subscribe to your content. They receive automatic updates when you change your content. Today’s browsers (FireFox/MSIE) are smart enough to add any clicked on RSS feeds to your RSS reader.
You Do Have an RSS Reader, Don’t You?! Although only a small minority of Internet users have ever subscribed to an RSS feed, the number of blogs out there now is reportedly more than 10 million worldwide. RSS adoption is growing rapidly as a result. Because RSS is, well, really simple, everybody and his brother seems to have written an RSS reader (also called an aggregator) and is vying for your attention.
There are many free online RSS readers where savvy internet users keep track of website content as needed. I use the Google Reader. You might consider:
Find more readers and information at Wikipedia.
Warm Regards,
Flash
Larry ‘Flash’ Alexander
http://flashhq.net
Tel: 970 672-4401






