Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'siteexplorer'

A WebmasterWorld thread is reporting a possible bug with the Yahoo Site Explorer tool. The webmaster reports that when trying to delete the https URLs of his site from the Yahoo index via Yahoo Site Explorer, it tries to delete...

Posted on May 15, 2008 8:15 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums has reports from dozens of webmasters that their link counts in the tool are way down. Some users are reporting as much as of an 80-percent reduction in the number of links Yahoo Site Explorer is finding...

Posted on March 19, 2008 7:10 AM

I have been hearing reports from friends in the industry that the external link reports at Google Webmaster Tools have not been updated for an unusually long time. I personally stop tracking those updates back in November 2007. We now...

Posted on February 25, 2008 7:24 AM

There are numerous reports coming from DigitalPoint Forums that Yahoo Site Explorer is reporting a huge reduction of pages and inlinks for sites. Personally, I cannot confirm these reports to be true at this time. It appears my link counts...

Posted on November 15, 2007 7:06 AM

Two weeks ago, we reported that users using Yahoo! Site Explorer were seeing different results depending on whether they were logged in or not. The Yahoo! Search Team has answered the call in a recent blog post, saying that a...

Posted on October 26, 2007 4:25 PM

Yahoo Site Explorer is a wonderful tool to check your page index count and the number and source of links you have pointing to your site. But did you know that you get different results if you are logged into...

Posted on October 12, 2007 7:22 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums thread reports that Yahoo Site Explorer seems to be showing less and less link data every month for some sites. Personally, I do not track my link counts in Yahoo Site Explorer. But at this moment in...

Posted on October 8, 2007 7:46 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread reports a recent change in how Yahoo handles displaying a banned site within Yahoo Site Explorer. In the past, Yahoo showed only the home page of a banned site in Yahoo Site Explorer. Now, there are early...

Posted on July 13, 2007 7:17 AM

There has always been this perception that links from domains with a .EDU TLD is better than links from .COM, .NET, .ORG and so on. Chris Boggs covered the debate with Are Links From .edu and .gov Domains Really "Better?"...

Posted on July 2, 2007 7:05 AM

Yahoo's site explorer tool is a great tool to check your links as well as competitor links. A WebmasterWorld notes something fairly clear to most users of the tool, that Yahoo! seems to order the links in order of some...

Posted on June 14, 2007 7:25 AM

We asked the question in the past, Can an Email Address Be Counted as a Back Link? Well, maybe the answer is yes. I was looking at Excel Diamonds backlinks in Yahoo! Site Explorer for fun and found that Yahoo!...

Posted on June 1, 2007 5:40 PM

The Yahoo! Search Blog has announced that Yahoo! Site Explorer is out of beta. Yahoo has also announced that Site Explorer has added functionality for users to submit sitemaps for their mobile device-friendly websites through the control panel. WebmasterWorld has...

Posted on April 16, 2007 12:20 PM

Last month Google, Microsoft & Yahoo! Back SiteMaps Protocol, so it makes sense to begin converting your sitemaps to one standardized file. One such webmaster did that, submitted the new file to Yahoo! and claimed that Yahoo!'s Site Explorer dropped...

Posted on December 5, 2006 7:34 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums thread reports by several members that they have recently noticed a huge increase in the reported number of links by Yahoo's Site Explorer. Reports such as from 6,000 links to 15,000 links. I am not sure if...

Posted on November 3, 2006 7:28 AM

Yahoo's Site Explorer is a very powerful tool for both competitive intelligence as well as to help your site in the Yahoo! Search index. Yahoo! Stores are now able to easily authenticate their site in Yahoo! Site Explorer, so they...

Posted on October 31, 2006 7:57 AM

Two different threads at two different forums are complaining about how Yahoo! is indexing and listing in the search results pages, URLs with tracking codes. Let's pull out one specific example, from the Search Engine Watch Forums thread. The URL...

Posted on August 4, 2006 7:18 AM