Yahoo! launched this FREE website tool a little over 3 years ago in September 2005, enabling webmasters to explore their own website with data they may have never had access to before. Yahoo! Site Explorer provides information about a site’s visibility in the Yahoo! search engine, what pages have been indexed and which websites are linking to yours.
A quick tour
If you’re not yet familiar with Yahoo! Site Explorer, then I would recommend using it on your web site. It’s a good resource for web site owners to gain insight into their site’s presence in Yahoo!. The tool shows which of the site’s pages are indexed and which pages are linking to the site (inbound links). If you go through the process of verifying that you are the site owner (authentication), then additional information is available, including what subdomains of the site are indexed by Yahoo!, when the Yahoo! web crawler last visited the site, and additional site metadata such as language. Detailed information about Site Explorer can be found in the Yahoo! help area. Note that Yahoo! also recently announced that normal queries on their search engine using ’site:’, ‘link:’, ‘linkdomain:’ will be redirected to the Site Explorer results page.
Moral
Website managers should take every opportunity they can to ensure their site content is well represented in the major search engines. Site Explorer is a useful tool that provides insight into a website’s visibility in Yahoo!. Considering the fact that use of Site Explorer is free, it’s well worth the time spent to authenticate your web site with Yahoo! and put this valuable tool to use.
December 26th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Nice! Thanks for showing me this!
April 14th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
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