HOW TO: Get Your Site Featured On Yahoo! News
Written by Pradeep Kumar in Yahoo - Print This Post
Yahoo! News is one of the most popular news aggregators out there. It gets millions of visitors now and then, and it will be great if your site gets a place there.
Think about the traffic and huge exposure. Yahoo! News works almost similar to Google News and Techmeme. Main stories, which you can see on front page, are generated by content partners indeed.
Also check my articles on getting featured series — Google News and Techmeme.
Getting Featured On Yahoo! News [Basic]
Below I mentioned 4 simple steps to make Yahoo! aware about your site/blog. That will be a great step for achieving this feat.
#1 – Submit Your Site : Make sure your blog/site is indexed by Yahoo! properly. If not, then submit your site URL to Yahoo! search engine.
#2 – Yahoo! Directory : You can actually suggest a site to get listed in Yahoo! Directory — The large scale directory of the Internet., though am not sure whether this one is really useful, still nothing wrong in trying this. 
#3 – Yahoo! Site Explorer : Site Explorer allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search. View the most popular pages from any site, dive into a comprehensive site map, and find pages that link to that site or any page. Add your site/blog there.
#4 – Yahoo! News Source Form : Yahoo! likes to have your opinions too. Just fill this form and make sure you satisfy Yahoo! with all your answers and sources. Finally if your blog is approved/accepted, they’ll contact you.
Getting Featured On Yahoo! News [Tips]
You don’t need to work so hard to get featured, instead just follow the normal rules. I already mentioned those tips on getting featured on Google News and Techmeme articles. Below I mentioned 3 common tips for getting featured.
- Original Content : Unless your content is unique and SEO friendly, you can’t get featured. Also avoid duplicate posts.
- Multi-Authored : It will be great if your blog has more than one or two authors. For this, enable Guest Blogging on your blog.
- Response Time : Your pages should index and load quickly.
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Great info! Have not heard of this tips before! Thanks for sharing and keep the good work up!
Nice tips! Have you got featured of your site on Yahoo ever?
Not yet Anup, as of now, we are concentrating on blogging tips, tutorials and reviews, which is hard to get featured. But we are also publishing Tech news, and trying our best to get featured. Cheers.
HBB is growing everyday, am sure the day will come soon with it will be featured in yahoo news. Also, let us know if you got featured in anywhere else, it will keep us motivated,
Not so easy for the technical bloggers. Good informative article though.
short but powerful article mate !! for a man of your caliber must get it featured soon
this is first time I see tips like this. I always wonder how some blogs got in yahoo news.
Hey Very Unique Information. I was not knowing this.. Will Try for my forum and blog
.. Thanks for sharing..
I recall that Yahoo Directory costs money?
yes it does, but if you have a really good blog then it can get accepted for free… it costs $300 fees which will get you a quick entry…
Nice tips….
surely i will try out……
Only buzzing up in Yahoo wont be enough for featuring?
Provide latest news in top speed.. I bet, you will get featured soon.
I guess it wont work …
Vikash, it won’t work, if we don’t work on it.
I have tried most of the steps you’ve mentioned over here, except the multi-authors. I’m going to add this one to my blog and lets see how it goes.
multi author greatly helps, but make sure to have real authors, if you make multiple authors yourself and post like someone else, they will figure it out by your writing style…
thank u friend
good info
i will try
thanks for the excellent article, i have never really thought about yahoo news, that’s another source i should try and get into. Though i guess, the biggest factor, above all, is the size of your blog, am sure just like google news, yahoo too won’t accept smaller blogs into their news site. No harm in trying though
Is it really simple for get features our post on yahoo news?
Chandan, buddy it is not HARD to get featured. Just update stuffs quickly and make Yahoo! aware about your blog.. allow them to take their own time..
Yahoo news..Interesting. Maybe getting into Yahoo News would be much easier as compared to Google News
No it is not mani. they will not even reply
Google replies to all the mails even the site is a crap
this is a great tutorial. I would love for my site to feature on yahoo
Hey Thanks, I have applied for it , it was really a nice tutorial
It also helps to issue press releases on sites like PRWeb as Yahoo news and other online news outlets monitor these releases fairly regularly.
Thanks for this information. I am looking similar article and tips exactly for Yahoo! News because our website featured daily breaking news and the like.
just submitted my site on yahoo directory. Lets see they approve me or not