October 20, 2009

Yahoo! Adds More Detailed Info to Site Explorer

Yahoo! Site Explorer is a great tool to check how many pages of your site are indexed as well as viewing inbound links to your site. Now, Yahoo! is adding even more detailed information.

SearchMonkey - If you've marked up your site with SearchMonkey code or provided a feed with a SearchMonkey template, you'll be able to use Site Explorer see what Yahoo! has indexed.

Yahoo! Search Key Terms - Launched last November into BOSS, Key Terms allows developers to develop refinement terms for their search services. Yahoo! is now providing information on Key Terms used on websites through Site Explorer

Delicious - Information about your site's pages being submitted to the social bookmarking site will now appear in Yahoo! Site Explorer.

Yahoo! has also updated the dashboard for Site Explorer as well as the backend logic for SearchMonkey feeds. Developers can now validate small test feeds quicker.

Have you checked out the updated Yahoo! Site Explorer? Let us know what you think by leaving a comment.

Posted by Nathania Johnson at 1:59 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

August 22, 2008

Yahoo Releases New Version of Site Explorer

Yahoo has released a new look for Site Explorer. Currently, the new version can be found at https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/new, but will be made default in the future.

The new look also comes with an update that increases the number of rules for Dynamic URL Rewriting from 3 to 10. Here are some screenshots of the new look:

What do you think of the new look? Let us know in the comments.

Posted by Nathania Johnson at 9:35 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

August 28, 2007

Yahoo! Support for Dynamic URL Rewriting

Last week at SES, Yahoo! added support for dynamic URL rewriting. Basically, this is a new feature in Yahoo! Site Explorer, that allows you to specify parameters on your URLs that you would like the Yahoo! crawler to ignore. After years of helping people get rid of Session IDs on their URLs, this is a really great thing to see. You can read the details on Dynamic URL Rewriting by Yahoo! here.

Yahoo! has continued to push on these types of features, and so has Google. I would like to urge the search engines to collaborate on these features. Ultimately, it's the availability in all the search engines that makes them powerful. As it stands now, if I had a client with a dynamic URL parameter problem, I would have them setup the new feature in Yahoo! as a stop gap, and still be working with them to get them removed because this feature is not supported by Google.

Props to Yahoo! for adding the feature, but now I need it from Google too. There are plenty of areas in which to compete, most notably that of search quality, or in new frontier areas of search. In the area of making the webmasters job easier, I believe that all the engines will derive the most benefit by collaboration.

Posted by at 10:27 AM | Permalink

August 22, 2007

Yahoo to Offer Dynamic URL Rewriting

Yahoo is addressing the needs of site owners with dynamic URLs with new dynamic URL rewriting features in Site Explorer. The new feature lets webmasters identify the dynamic parameters in URLs that Yahoo should ignore, such as parameters that don't affect the content of a page, but that have other important uses. Yahoo can then strip the dynamic parameters in URLs and rewrite them, making crawling more efficient, and making display of URLs in search results easier to read. It can also improve a page's ranking in results, since it will counteract the dissipation of "link juice" from links to different URLs linking to the same page.

In addition, Yahoo has made improvements to its crawling and indexing systems. The changes are intended to create a fresher, more comprehensive index, while also reducing load requirements on Web sites being crawled.

Posted by Kevin Newcomb at 1:56 PM | Permalink

January 30, 2007

Yahoo Site Explorer Gets Updates

Yahoo has updated Site Explorer, its tool for webmasters that shares what Yahoo knows about your site in terms of indexed pages and links. The latest version allows users to authenticate via meta tags, in case uploading a file to the site's home directory is not possible or desired; and detailed authentication errors are provided when things go wrong. In addition, new Site Explorer badges are available for showing the world how many people link to your site (as far as Yahoo knows).

One tool, which Andy Beal calls "a disaster waiting to happen," allows users to remove their site from Yahoo's index.

"If this loop hole is not fixed it's only a matter of time before webmasters start waking up to entire sites missing from the Yahoo index. Yahoo accounts are too accessible to phishing and hack attempts to be the only barrier for such a powerful tool," writes Beal.

Posted by Kevin Newcomb at 5:53 PM | Permalink

October 31, 2006

Yahoo Adds Yahoo Store Authentication For Site Explorer

The Yahoo Search Blog announced that if you run a Yahoo Store, you can now easily authenticate your site with Yahoo's Site Explorer. The step by step how to can be found at Authenticating your Site for Yahoo! Site Explorer.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 9:13 AM | Permalink

October 5, 2006

Yahoo Gives Update On Site Explorer

Site Explorer Authentication - Some Improvements and Notes from the Yahoo Search Blog gives an update, tips and some bug fixes for those making use of the service, especially focused on issues with authentication.

Posted by Danny Sullivan at 8:12 PM | Permalink

August 10, 2006

Which Queries On Yahoo Search Get Redirected To Site Explorer?

The Yahoo Search Blog defines which queries will be redirected from Yahoo Search to Yahoo Site Explorer. Remember on July 11th when we reported that Yahoo Tests Redirecting Some Searches To Site Explorer? So which queries exactly do this? Queries in the format of site:ysearchblog.com or link:http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000341.html or linkdomain:ysearchblog.com but not ysearchblog.com or ysearchblog or site:ysearchblog.com webmasters (looking for ysearchblog posts mentioning webmasters) or link:http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000341.html Danny Sullivan (looking for links to the article mentioning Danny Sullivan) or or linkdomain:ysearchblog.com site:yahoo.com (looking for links to ysearchblog from within yahoo.com). More details at the Yahoo Search Blog.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 11:43 AM | Permalink

August 8, 2006

Yahoo Releases Updates To Site Explorer

During the Bot Obedience Course session at SES San Jose just a few minutes ago, Rajat at Yahoo announced a new upgrade to the Site Explorer tool they initially launched last year. The additions at Site Explorer include:

- More information about sites you own., including -- Last Crawled Date and Language for your Site URLs -- Subdomains of your site - Feed submissions are much smoother. You can submit RSS, Atom and URL lists, and manage all of them from one place. For authenticated sites, you can also track when they were submitted and processed. - UpdateNotification Web Service to notify us of feed or site updates, part of the suite of Site Explorer APIs you already know and love. Since these return the same data as the tool, we recommend using them for automated applications.

The tool really reminds me of Google Sitemaps, now Google Webmaster Central.

I hope to take a deeper look after the SES conference.

Update: More details just posted at the Yahoo Search Blog.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 5:39 PM | Permalink

July 27, 2006

Yahoo Launches Visual Link Map Tool Named Webzari

The Yahoo Search Blog announced a new tool developed by the Yahoo Korea team named Webzari. Webzari is a tool that visually maps the data from Yahoo Site Explorer. It takes a site's inlinks, and maps them in planets on a map.

Check out Search Engine Watch's map which is kinda hard to read, but you can also check out Search Engine Roundtable which has easier to read planets. Notice, when you mouse over the planets, it shows you the location of the server linking to you, and if you click on it shows you more. Very cool interface.

Check it out at the Yahoo Search Blog.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 11:13 AM | Permalink

July 14, 2006

Yahoo Tests Redirecting Some Searches To Site Explorer & Yahoo Search Update

Yahoo is testing out redirecting some of those who conduct a link command or site command search at search.yahoo.com to the Yahoo Site Explorer tool. I reported this and just now received confirmation from Yahoo that they are testing out this solution with a "percentage of users" conducting these searches. Yahoo has always wanted to move these special searches off the main search.yahoo.com page and onto the Site Explorer front.

On other Yahoo news, Yahoo just announced a weather report stating, "we rolled out an index update last night. As usual, you may see some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling of the pages that are included in the index."

Want to discuss the Site Explorer change in our forums, join the discussion named Yahoo operators re-directing to Site Explorer.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 2:44 PM | Permalink

September 29, 2005

Yahoo Site Explorer Live: New Way To See All Your Pages, Links

Promised over a month ago, Yahoo Site Explorer is now reality. Yahoo gives the heads-up to everyone here on its Yahoo Search Blog, and how it will show you all pages within a domain, within a particular directory of a domain, all inbound links to a domain and the ability to bulk submit (which was already live earlier and explained more in our earlier post). You can also access through a new Site Explorer API or export data for further analysis. More details also on the help page.

If you're a Search Engine Watch member, I do a through exploration of Site Explorer in this article in the members area. Check it out! Or hey, help support the site and the blog by becoming an SEW member! Below, a summary of my wish list items and observations from that members' article:

You can see all pages from all domains, one domain, or a directory/section within a domain
You can NOT pattern match to find all URLs from a domain, unfortunately
You can see all links to a specific page or a domain
You can NOT exclude your own links, very unfortunately
You can export data, but only the first 50 items, unfortunately
Search commands such as link: aren't supported, and I hope that might come
You can get a feed of your top pages, but I want a feed of backlinks to inform me of new ones that are found. Site owners deserve just as much fun as blog owners in knowing about new links to them.

Want to comment or discuss? Visit our Search Engine Watch Forums thread, Yahoo Site Explorer Now Live!

Posted by Danny Sullivan at 8:46 PM | Permalink

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