Pointing Webmaster Queries to Site Explorer
A lot of webmasters use Yahoo! Search to get page and inlink data about their site, using ’site:’, ‘link:’, ‘linkdomain:’ queries. Starting last night, we are redirecting all queries of this nature to the Site Explorer results pages, so that you can benefit from this tool’s additional features.
To reiterate, the following types of queries will be redirected:
- site:ysearchblog.com
- link:http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000341.html
- linkdomain:ysearchblog.com
All other queries, such as the ones below, will not be redirected:
- ysearchblog.com
- ysearchblog
- site:ysearchblog.com webmasters (looking for ysearchblog posts mentioning webmasters)
- link:http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000341.html Danny Sullivan (looking for links to the article mentioning Danny Sullivan)
- linkdomain:ysearchblog.com site:yahoo.com (looking for links to ysearchblog from within yahoo.com)
Site Explorer, since its launch last year, has had various features geared to serve webmaster needs for data about their web site, such as data downloads in TSV format and more accurate counts of results. On Tuesday we launched an upgraded version of the Site Explorer with several new features.
For those of you who will be seeing Site Explorer for the first time, we hope that you will find that these features make your lives easier.
If you want to extract this data programmatically, please use our Web Service APIs. The APIs provide the same data and will be more stable and easier to parse than our search page, which we regularly change to make user experience improvements for our users.
A hearty thank you to the many webmasters who have tried out Site Explorer’s new functionality since the Tuesday update. If you haven’t visited yet stop by to register your site and let us know your thoughts on Site Explorer in our forum.
Priyank Garg
Product Manager, Yahoo! Search
A search at Yahoo.com redirects to Site Explorer, but the search is not completed. I get the top of the page and then nothing, just blank.
martin
We also noticed that and fixed it. Thanks for the pointer.
Awesome.
You guys are doing and excelent job. Yet, I don’t get to add feeds to my sites directly… it always report as if the link was broken. Instead I have to ‘explore’ the feed, add it and then Explorer will ask me if it belongs to the main domain.
Odd.
Understandably, Yahoo is justifiably concerned about the use of its resources for SEO-ing tactics.
But, this policy is unethical – Webmasters MUST have the option of deciding for themselves what works for them.
Those who use the LINK operator – and especially the LINKDOMAIN operator are SAVY SEOs who know perfectly well about sitemaps.
But, like most betas (Google’s included) they just are not preferred at this point.
Again, empathizing with the concern Yahoo has about the usage of its resources like this, it still is the wrong way to redress this matter.
Please listen to Search Engines WEB, seek other ways to resolve this conflict. This is potentially valuable search traffic – and could be exploited to Yahoo’s benefit, while STILL allowing WEbmasters to choose their analysis tactics.
The “site:” command causes my IE to crash as soon as I move the mouse, while Firefox still shows the old “site:” results, which are much quicker for me to evaluate.
Maybe you should re-think the entire concept before webmasters all over the planet start bashing you publicly… Please don’t take me the wrong way, because I love the Site Explorer (and I look forward to future enhancements), but after all, the “site:” command is an accepted function by both webmasters and search engines alike. Why break something that works?
Just my 2 cents…
FYI: When screen resolution is set to 800×600, my IE6 crashes with this error as soon as the mouse is moved:
IEXPLORE.EXE – Application Error
The instruction at “0×100301f1″ referenced memory at “0×100301f1″. The memory could not be “read”.
When screen resolution is 1024 or higher, it seems to work fine…
When I am logged in it shows that my site has a subdomain. We have never had a subdomain on this site, we are seeing our pages slowly disappear as well. Site is several years old.
Should we be concerned that Yahoo is seeing us as having a subdomain and if so how do we correct this?
Thanks.
Our office is getting a error 999 message very often blocking us from the site explorer domain. I have never had a problem checking backlinks until this switch over. Everything seems to check out fine on our side, so I am just confused by this refusal of service.
Does the Y! web search API return Site Explorer results now for these queries, or will it still return the old counts and results?
The new features for Site Explorer are great. Nice work!
i created my web page recently and listed it with google, msn and yahoo, however when i type my keywords into the search engine it is not listed. it will only come up if we type in the complete address of http://www.chewsnmorepetandrehabsupply.com. i am worried that potential customers searching by keywords will not see my site. so far there has been no sales. would someone e mail me and tell me what i am doing wrong. i cannot figure this out. thank you for your kindness.
The best search engine data still comes from Yahoo, its a pity more search engines dont implement linkdomain: properly
Hi,
I’m trying to find out the number of inlinks to one our sites at a directory level. So, for example I try doing link:www.caterersearch.com/articles/2006 and it says that there are no inlinks. But when I test one of the articles within this directory (http://www.caterersearch.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=308871) it shows 17.
Is this an error, or am I not meant to be able to check inlinks at this level?
Thanks,
Ciarán
The new features for Site Explorer are great. Nice work!
I really like all the new features of Yahoo Site Explorer. I use it almost exclusively instead of Google’s tool.
Hi, I would like to submit my site into the yahoo directory, please notify me how is it posible to do it, because I have done everything needed in Internet.
Thanks, Ricardo Aleman Site: http://www.publinica.com.ni
Very good work.
Yahoo Site Explorer – great thing. I use it everyday instead Google! Nice work!
I use Site Explorer to check up my links a few times everyday. Ä°ts very useful so thank you.
And I have Yahoo Search as my homepage on my browser, but sometimes it doesn’t open for a day or two. The Yahoo adress bar and the Page Rank for that page comes but the page doesn’t open. Is this only happening to me?