How do you get Yahoo to spider your site?

[GarryST]

For a fairly new site that has been around for 5 months and been indexed/spidered once by Yahoo and MSN, and you add new seo-friendly pages, how do you get Yahoo to re-spider it? There are a few links to the site, but not that many. Is there any way to speed up the process or is there anything that I can do?

[Dallas Broker]

First you might check out search submit express. Any url you ad here is updated every 48hrs, but you are still paying on a ppc basis at 50cents, but content is constantly refreshed.

Are you currently with any PPC ad services?

[VRI]

IMO, skip the submit express. Yahoo will find/spider/update just like the others... from links to your page. Get more, and stronger links to your site and you'll be all set.

[fpforum]

I agree with VRI..If you really want to get a specific page indexed quicker - then do some link exchanges, but in your exchanges have the other person linking to that page directly (ie: have them link to www.yourdomain.com/sub-page1.html)..Another way, which may take a little longer, would be to create a site-map..Your site should always have a site-map and should be around from day 1...In my experience site maps have helped get ALL of my pages indexed much quicker...Hope this helps

[webmaster]

Some believe that inclusion in the yahoo paid directory causes more frequent spidering, I cannot confirm this, or deny it as I have not thoroughly tested, but might be worth looking into to.

[Jnazareno]

Some believe that inclusion in the yahoo paid directory causes more frequent spidering, I cannot confirm this, or deny it as I have not thoroughly tested, but might be worth looking into to.

Just a waste of money .... did it and all it did was initially spidered/index my new site quicker but that's all..free link exchange with quality sites are better and again free

[Dallas Broker]

yahoo paid directory inclusion is priceless in my opinion, esp. when building a site, the directory link alone is worth the $300.00, aside from other benefits (confirmed or unconfirmed)

[vtalerico]

So what are some of the benifits to submitting my site for inclusion into the Yahoo directory? I figure, why not submit to all the different Yahoo directories that are free and that would generate the same type of benifit.

[Dj]

Yahoo doesn't ever seem to leave me alone in terms of spidering. When I look at my numbers, Yahoo's hits are 11,000 and google's are 1,300 for the month. It's always been this way for as long as I can remember. Right now for my main keyword I'm #4 in yahoo and for google I'm #3. But yahoo is very fickle, they really just started showing me again. For a long time, I was down with them, where google has seemed to stay somewhat consistent.

Who knows why? Not me. I have a sitemap but I'm bad about updating it. It's really too long anyway. I do google sitemaps, I paid the $300 for the directory listing. I exchange links often. I write and submit articles for one way links often and I try to update my website content a few times week. I'm pretty consistent with these things so it doesn't really make sense to me why they love me and then hate me -- but they always spider me. Right now they love me and it does make a difference in leads.

I would recommend spending the $300. Try to sneak your main keyword into the anchor text when you submit. It worked for me. I don't see this too often. Maybe there was a new guy on that day. :-)

[Smuck]

Just a waste of money .... did it and all it did was initially spidered/index my new site quicker but that's all..free link exchange with quality sites are better and again free

Ditto. I spent the money about 2 months ago, and I am no where to be found in Yahoo. I spent the money thinking it would help my chances to rank higher and quicker. Neither has happened!