Yahoo Site Explorer

Yahoo search engine optimization can be easy when you set up your site on Yahoo Site Explorer, a webmaster tool for Yahoo SEO, which is equivalent to Google’s Webmaster Tools and Bing’s Webmaster Tools.

You can either use your existing Yahoo ID or create a new Yahoo ID to sign-in to Yahoo Site Explorer account.

Website Ownership Authentication

Before using Yahoo Site Explorer, you have to go through the authentication step. Verify the ownership of your web site either by:

  • Uploading a verification file to your site’s hosting space, or
  • Adding code to your site’s META tag

Sitemap Submission

To notify Yahoo’s index (Slurp) about your site’s pages, submit your website’s sitemap file once to Yahoo Site Explorer.

Site Statistics

Your website’s statistics are available for review on Yahoo Site Explorer:

  • Crawled Pages
  • All Known Pages
  • Known Hosts on This Site
  • Hosts linking to Site
  • Domains linking to Site
  • Hosts Outlinked from Site
  • Domains Outlinked from Site

Web Site’s Crawl Errors

Yahoo Site Explorer shows you the crawl errors to your site, including 404 errors. You can determine the web pages that need to have 301 redirects set up, according the crawl error information.

Top Search Queries and URLs

Yahoo Site Explorer shows:

  • The top search queries that users searched on Yahoo before arriving at your site
  • The top URLs that Yahoo’s users visited

Dynamic URLs

When your site have dynamic URLs with parameters and session IDs, it always causes issues for Yahoo’s search algorithm. You can specify up to 10 dynamic parameters in Yahoo Site Explorer so that Yahoo’s search algorithm can figure it out. Yahoo Site Explorer will treat each dynamic parameter with one of the methods:

  • Remove parameters from your site’s URLs
  • Set default values for parameters

Show Inbound Links

Through Yahoo Site Explorer, You can review the inbound links (aka inlinks or backlinks) from other websites pointing to your site. With this backlink data, you can export up to 1000 lines of data in spreadsheet format.

You can even include a Yahoo Search Badge on your site in which a “counter” of the number of backlinks to your site will be shown.

Delicious and SearchMonkey

Yahoo Site Explorers shows your site’s brief statistics regarding Delicious bookmarks and top Delicious tags. You are also shown your SearchMonkey objects’ statistics.

Comments

3 Responses to “Yahoo Site Explorer”

  1. Submit Site to Baidu on January 24th, 2010 3:06 pm

    [...] Google, Yahoo or Bing, Baidu currently offers no official search engine webmaster tools and no URL submission [...]

  2. instinctis on May 29th, 2010 10:13 pm

    completely true that yahoo is a great engine for checking your backlinks (and a little more) as it seems more accurate than others when it comes to Inlinks…anyway i do check my site’s status with this online tool: http://ministatus.com … maybe it’ll help someone

  3. Ken on July 25th, 2011 3:24 pm

    Yahoo yes is a great backlink checker but i really struggle to get internal pages indexed at any speed on yahoo. Google indexs new pages/sites in days, bing is slower but does get there but on yahoo if after 6 months 25% of a site has been indexed i regard it as a result. Any tips Gordon on getting indexed quicker on yahoo. Have tried sitemaps but still seems to make no difference.

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