Submit Your Site To Yahoo! Site Explorer

Is your site listed in Yahoo! Site Explorer? It is easier than ever now for customers to submit and authenticate their sites to Yahoo! Site Explorer.

Now, enable ’sitemap.xml’ on your site, and your site will be submitted to Yahoo! Site Explorer automatically. You can begin to see information such as which of your web pages are indexed by Yahoo and what websites link to your site. Once you verify access to a site by having it authenticated, the Site Explorer toolkit enables you to access information like what subdomains from your site are known to Yahoo and other information Yahoo detects about your site, such as what language your pages are supposed to be in. Added functionality for authenticated sites includes being able to monitor the last processed date and last submitted date of your feeds, and the last date your site was crawled by Yahoo. You can view the most popular pages from any site, search a comprehensive site map, and find pages that link to that particular site or any page.

Site Explorer allows you to explore not just your own but all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search. You can see basic information about a website you have not authenticated simply by entering that URL in Site Explorer; you can see subpages within that URL that are indexed by Yahoo, and incoming links .

Exploring a site is similar to doing a web search but instead of entering a keyword search term, you enter a site’s URL. Site Explorer uses the URL to provide information related to the structure of that particular URL in the Yahoo! Search database and on the Web. With Site Explorer you can easily track what Yahoo is indexing on your own site as well as how often.

Using Site Explorer is totally free, and the information it provides can be helpful in identifying any problems Yahoo sees on your site, such as bad link sources. You’ll also be able to tell if your feeds (RSS, Atom, or Sitemap) are working, or if you need to provide additional metadata to Yahoo through feeds or better language indicators.

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