From Wendy Boswell,
Your Guide to Web Search.
FREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now!

Yahoo is both a search engine and a directory. By submitting your site to Yahoo's human-edited directory, you may have a better chance of being found by purely spider-driven engines (such as Google). It's best to figure out exactly where your site or content may fit in the Yahoo structure before submitting willy-nilly to anything that has the word "submit" in it. Expect a "reasonable delay" when using any of these site submission options.

There are eight (!) submission options with Yahoo; I'm going to briefly go over them one by one:

• free site submission
• free mobile site submission
• free media content submission
• Yahoo search index submission
• sponsored search
• product submission
• travel submission
• Yahoo directory submit
• Yahoo standard submission

Yahoo Free Site Submission

The Yahoo Site Submit option is easy and free. All you have to do is enter the URL of the site you'd like to submit to be included in the Yahoo Search index. Must have a free Yahoo ID in order to do this (registration required).

Yahoo Mobile Site Submission

You can submit your xHTML, WML or cHTML mobile site for inclusion in Yahoo's mobile search index. Again, just submit your site's URL.

Yahoo Media Content Submission

If you have audio, video, or visual content, you can submit your content to Yahoo Search via your media RSS feed. Not as complicated as it might sound.

Yahoo Search Submit

Yahoo's Search Submit Express option is not free, but you do get guaranteed inclusion within the Yahoo search index. Pricing of this option varies. Make sure to read the Yahoo Site Submit guidelines thoroughly before choosing this option; you want to make sure it's the best option for your site since it does cost.

Keep reading for the rest of the Yahoo site submit options on page two of this article titled 8 Ways to Submit Your Site to Yahoo.