4 Yahoo services that can help your blog grow

1.Yahoo buzz

Yahoo! Buzz is a community-based news article website, similar to Digg, that combines the features of social bookmarking and syndication through a user interface that allows editorial control. A big number of Internet users are connected to Yahoo Buzz. While you submit a URL into it. It is sure your URL will become more visible to Search Engines and will be exposed to a lot of Yahoo buzz visitors. I suggest visit Yahoo buzz daily and post your every blog post into it. It will increase visitors to your blogs or websites.

2.Yahoo Answers

Yahoo Answers is a community-driven question-and-answer site launched by Yahoo. It allows users to both submit questions to be answered and answer questions asked by other users. The site gives members the chance to earn points as a way to encourage participation. A big community daily uses Yahoo Answers service daily. When we search in search engine, many times it happens a Yahoo Answer is returned which may lead to our problem's solution. I encourage you to participate in Yahoo Answers and search for similar topics as you post in your blog. Users are wondering for solutions to their issues. Reply the question and redirect users to your blog or website if you have already discussed that issue at your blog. This tip worked for me, give it a try.


3.Yahoo Directory

Although Yahoo Directory is a paid service but there is a chance for you to add your website or blog in it for free. It is one of the most high ranked Directory alongside Open Directory Dmoz.If you got your website or blog into it you will be sured of getting good ranks and appearing at top in search results. Yahoo Directory also offers a way to submit your URL for free. However they don't guaranty how much time it will take to get submitted. The worst possibility is that your URL will be rejected, even then you don't loose anything. Just give it a try. Find the appropriate category for your blog or site and click the link " Suggest a site". You will be given following screen.
You can submit your link to Yahoo directory through this link.

4.Yahoo Site Explorer

Yahoo Site Explorer is a Yahoo! service which allows viewing of information on websites in Yahoo!'s search index, it is a service for web-masters like Google Webmaster tools. You can submit your blog/web URL and to authenticate your ownership you will be provided special meta tag or a file to upload at root directory of your website/blog. After authenticating a site properly you may see indexed pages of your site. You got an option to submit sitemap or RSS feed of your site, that will surely improve performance of your websites in search results.

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