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April 10, 2007

Site Explorer Matures a Bit More and Accepts Mobile Feeds

It's been nearly two years since we first made Site Explorer available . How time flies! Since its inception, we've added a number of new features to Site Explorer, including Feed Submission, Site Authentication and more data for webmasters. And today, we've got a few more additions to share with our users.

Site Explorer offers Mobile Submit
Enhancing our Mobile Site Submit feature, publishers can now submit mobile sites and feeds to Site Explorer, which enables them to get their mobile sites into Yahoo! oneSearch and gain access to Yahoo!'s mobile user base. Our mobile crawler will consume these feeds to help it find new pages. The feeds can be:

RSS 0.9, 1.0 and 2.0, such as CNN Top Stories
Sitemaps
Atom 0.3 and Atom 1.0 such as, Yahoo! Search Blog
A text file with a list of URLs, each URL at the start of a new line
A single webpage

Site Explorer is out of Beta
A while back we added the Delete URL feature to provide more direct control to webmasters. This was a critical stage for Site Explorer and after having successfully crossed that milestone, today we're taking it out of beta. Over the last few months, webmasters have tried out the various features and provided their feedback, which we're addressing in this release:

Input URLs for Delete -- You now have more flexibility. You can modify the URL or path you want to delete on the confirmation page.
Delete more than five invalid URLs -- Your limit has increased from five. Remember, as before, each delete can rid a whole path of URLs.

Report Spam
We've heard from a number of webmasters who are looking for ways to address spam, so we're trying out a new feature. Now when exploring your authenticated site, if you find a suspicious inlink, such as an off-topic link or a suspected linkfarm, just click on the 'Report Spam' button and submit a spam report.

We hope you find these updates useful. And as always, keep the feedback coming!

Yahoo! Site Explorer and Mobile Search teams

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Comments

Site Explorer offers great tools and they just keep getting better! Letting you delete more than 5 urls and spam reporting is a big plus.

Posted by: Kris | April 10, 2007 09:19 PM

It's good to see that yahoo's moving forward.

Good luck.

Posted by: Vygantas | April 11, 2007 07:15 AM

But how and where do people with non yahoo email adresses report spam coming from a yahoo email adress?

Posted by: How And Where | April 22, 2007 04:22 AM

Site explore helped me to get the best analysis about my site.

Hope to see more enhancement in future

All the best

Posted by: David harve | May 15, 2007 08:14 AM

SiteExplorer COOL .... !! you have to try it !!

Posted by: Ngadutrafik 2007 | May 17, 2007 11:39 AM

thank you very much for this post
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Site Explorer Matures a Bit More and Accepts Mobile Feeds ""

Posted by: Merouane | May 20, 2007 08:26 AM

How does the sitemap exactly work on Yahoo ?

Posted by: Sterling Silver CZ Jewelry | May 30, 2007 06:02 AM

I just started using it and I think it's very useful. Thanks for the great work!

Posted by: Dog Collar | May 31, 2007 08:42 AM

Very accurate finally get real time update on sitemaps and web crawl a+

Posted by: Focus Trucking | June 2, 2007 05:28 PM

Hello,
l have added "a meta tag" on my homepage and when l try to "site explore" but it says SITE NOT FOUND ! l dont know why ! Please Help me !
Thanks...
Have a good day !

Posted by: TRIMMER | June 20, 2007 10:03 AM

Still lacking ANY functionality.... (compared with ... Google sitemaps)

Posted by: bijles | June 25, 2007 08:55 AM

A+

Posted by: Apexemb | July 9, 2007 07:36 AM

all links from this page is NOFOLLOW...

Posted by: Martin | July 15, 2007 04:21 AM

Is this the same as Google's Webmaster Console?

Posted by: Halloween Dog Costume | July 23, 2007 11:43 AM

Site explore helped me to get the best analysis about my site.

Posted by: Edwin | July 25, 2007 08:31 AM

I just started using it and I think it's very useful. Thanks for the great work!