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January 30, 2007

Yahoo! Site Explorer Wants You To Show Off Your Links With Badges

Yahoo! Site Explorer, Yahoo!'s Webmaster tool that details your index count and link count for your pages and site, has released badges. These Yahoo! Site Explorer Badges can be placed on your site to promote how many links you have to a page or to the site overall.

Here is what it looks like in real time:

Links to Site

I find it weird that Yahoo! is offering this badge. Just doesn't jive with what a search company should want SEOs or webmasters to promote. But I can be wrong - something just doesn't sit well with me on this.

Forum discussion at Search Engine Roundtable Forums - thanks Kevin.



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posted rustybrick in Yahoo! Search Optimization at January 30, 2007 7:03 AM Comments (5)

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Would make sense if Yahoo! is tracking which users place this on the site. What they would gain from this is anyones guess!

 

Posted by AndrewRedfern at January 30, 2007 07:20

They gain increased knowledge in crawling and get a good feel on visitors to a website. We added it today to see what happens in the serps...

 

Posted by Jeff at January 30, 2007 12:04

I think i like the idea, it gives a clear indication to users the importance of the site.

 

Posted by RapidWeb at January 30, 2007 17:39

Curiously though the number that they show on the badge, and the number that shows when you click on the badge to do the actual search don't match... I'm seeing about a 7.5% difference, with the badge being the one over-reporting.

 

Posted by Simon Heseltine at January 31, 2007 08:00

For me, it is a couple hundred off. Not as large as 7.5%

 

Posted by Barry Schwartz at January 31, 2007 08:39

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