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August 21, 2008

Site Explorer Gets a Makeover

A few years ago, we launched Site Explorer with the goal of providing site owners with better visibility into how we index their websites and what data we use in our search service. Over the years we've moved beyond simply providing information to webmasters to allowing them to tell us what to do with their site, using functions such as submitting feeds, deleting URLs or reporting spam. Our most successful function among all has been Dynamic URL Rewriting. We've had thousands of site owners enter rules for their websites and webmasters auto-rewrite an average of 25,000 URLs per rule, with some sites rewriting millions of URLs in 1 shot.

Today, we launched a new look and feel for Site Explorer (http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/new) that provides a more dynamic interface to accommodate future feature roll-outs. The new interface also includes a new Site Summary page to provide statistics for authenticated sites. On top of this, we're also increasing the number of rules for Dynamic URL Rewriting that you can enter from 3 to 10.

The new site is located at a special URL to give you some time to play around with it and update your tools that use our interface. We will make this the default experience soon, so please use this time to update your tools. And, as always, please give us feedback on your new experience. We want to hear from you!


Priyank Garg
Yahoo! Search

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Comments

Hi, This new tool is ok, though i haven't checked it but just uploaded my new website on low cost health insurance http://www.apollodkv.co.in

Posted by: seowebmaster | August 21, 2008 09:27 PM

I have used site explorer yesterday and it was awesome that i get a list of links towards my site. Keep it up and please market it so that many users will go to it.

Posted by: charles | August 21, 2008 09:33 PM

I always use site explorer to see my inlinks for my car insurance article directory site http://www.CarInsuranceZine.com - Thanks Yahoo!

Posted by: Esaul Daris | August 21, 2008 10:01 PM

I really like the new site explorer - the design just makes it feel a lot nicer to use and as always the information provided is great. Look forward to seeing the new features you're going to add!

Posted by: zoe | August 21, 2008 11:30 PM

Very nice improvement guys! I added my website to it and I really like the way you can easily find inlinks for each page. Yahoo! has been introducing some nice services lately. Keep your good work.

Posted by: Frank Levert | August 22, 2008 08:31 AM

I always use site explorer to see my inlinks for my Jang jobs ,admissions and tenders directory site http://www.paperpk.com - Thanks Yahoo!

Posted by: Jang | August 22, 2008 10:33 PM

nice, but how do I delete a website? with old version I had the "Delete web sites" button...

Posted by: Technical | August 25, 2008 08:12 AM

I like all the improvements, and I especially look forward to using the re-write rule.

The UI looks great as well, thanks for all the hard work!

Posted by: J Dean | August 26, 2008 03:02 PM

Glad to see Yahoo investing in this. I really hope they get their act together since one search option is not enough. http://www.theGrubClub.com Thanks

Posted by: Restaurant Menus | August 27, 2008 08:27 AM

By far better than the previous version, seeing an increase of about 20% in the results. Good work.

Posted by: Saving money | August 27, 2008 10:37 AM

Good use of this tool!

We certainly going to use it!

Posted by: xiamen | August 27, 2008 06:40 PM

Not just a great tool, but a sign that we can all trust Yahoo with accuracy and reporting. With such improvement to dev. I will start focusing on your product,roll more out!! Well Done

Posted by: Serviced offices | August 28, 2008 02:28 AM

the look and feel is much nicer. I am excited to see some new features

-Chad

Posted by: veteran loans | August 29, 2008 09:59 AM

Yahoo site explorer is a great tool to verify if your linking strategy is going on the right way

Posted by: Buy Acyclovir | August 31, 2008 08:23 AM

The improvements are small and nice but I hope to see much more comprehensive changes to this tool in the future.

Keep up the good work.

Posted by: Vikas Sah | August 31, 2008 09:57 AM

I like all the improvements, and I especially look forward to using the re-write rule.I wonder when this will be released though.

The UI looks great as well, thanks for all the hard work! C'mon Yahoo lets do it this year..

Look in my website and review it.

Thanks All

Posted by: Serviced offices | August 31, 2008 12:27 PM

this all new interface is looking so cool. Cheers for the hard work.

Posted by: basement flooring | August 31, 2008 01:32 PM

the new look of site explore is okay as i checked it with detail a few things which yahoo make easy to find and a non technical person may work on this very easily..... Grate Job Yahoo!..............

Posted by: Chirag Vyas | September 1, 2008 12:41 AM

nice Changing in site explorer. it is really termendous changing.

Posted by: vitiligo | September 1, 2008 09:53 PM

Great addition to existing tool. Like the clean web 2.0 interface.

Posted by: Computer Repair Services | September 7, 2008 07:02 PM

much better and easier than before.
Thanks a lot n hope always develop become easier and better for users.

Posted by: Web Diagnostic | September 7, 2008 07:59 PM

I recently tried the webmaster tools of g**g**, but after using y! site explorer I prefer that one - its just the better interface

used for my site http://www.viennacityflats.at

Posted by: Robert | September 9, 2008 09:59 PM

New site explorer is much better than old one. Still, I'd like to see more data about crawling rate.
Jaak http://shop.it.ee

Posted by: Jack | September 14, 2008 10:36 AM

I always use site Explorer.
Yahoo site explorer is a great tool

Posted by: 趣味 ARTGALLERY | September 19, 2008 01:03 AM

You mean 'Extreme Makeover' :)

I liked the new site explorer and have two inputs:

1- when will it be the default layout?
2- is it possible to place the last crawl date for evert site in general

Thanks a lot

Posted by: Hicham | September 20, 2008 08:14 PM

I would really love to see an RSS feed for any chosen site to see when new links are added. Am I missing something here? thanks

Posted by: momo | September 22, 2008 05:34 PM

I am really liking the new look and improvements you have been making.

Keep it up!

Mark

Posted by: Internet Marketing Solutions | September 28, 2008 08:29 AM

When i try and log into Yahoo Site Explorer i get:
We are currently experiencing difficulties with our internal systems. Please try again later.

anyone else getting this?? Thxs!

Posted by: Matthew | October 6, 2008 07:35 AM

i dont know what to do with site explorer varification
always tell me that my varification is false
i add my site many times but not authorized
what can i do?

Posted by: Review com | October 8, 2008 04:38 AM

I've had huge benefit from Yahoo!Site Explorer. I keep in touch always with this tool.

Posted by: Blogging For Profit | October 8, 2008 01:04 PM

I'm also seeing:

"We are currently experiencing difficulties with our internal systems. Please try again later."

But only on one of my site explorer logins (with about 100 web sites on it)! The other ones are just fine.

Posted by: Your Amigo SEO | October 8, 2008 11:23 PM

I keep in touch always with this tool.

Posted by: Warhammer Guides | October 9, 2008 08:27 PM

One of the best online tools that really much helps in SEO, new version is even better, and to be honest I can't wait next update of this beautiful and veeery useful tool.

Posted by: Make Money From Home | October 12, 2008 06:08 AM

A very useful tool just got a lot better. I am happy about the new interface and more logical functionality. Hopefully I can get better statistics about my sites.

Posted by: Jon Christopher | October 12, 2008 06:28 AM

I love the new tool, but I thought it was showing PR on the backlinks and now I do not see it. Did this just recently change (late October)? Please advise as this was one of the best parts of the new system.

Posted by: Chris | October 26, 2008 06:44 AM

Super buggy. Not sure how you roll this out when basic features cause page errors.

Posted by: Taj C. | October 27, 2008 03:27 PM

I have not failed and use this tool all the time.

Posted by: Fail Funnies | October 27, 2008 06:51 PM

Yahoo have improved thier tools significantly from last few years. The tools are free and very benificial for seo.

Posted by: car sale | October 29, 2008 10:07 AM

The tool is much easier to use and very helpful. I can now track the sitemaps of all the sites at one place.

Posted by: House Sale | October 29, 2008 11:59 AM

yahoo has the greatest variety of tools to help the user

Posted by: nishagun | October 29, 2008 09:53 PM

The new features are good and interesting to use though the help could be a little more easy to use.

Posted by: Blog Hosting | October 31, 2008 04:39 AM

Site Explorer is one of the best tool....

Posted by: kevin | October 31, 2008 07:58 AM

realy nice tool. i am going to authenticate the site and then will see what features i can see.

Posted by: used cars | November 1, 2008 02:22 AM

Looks like after the makeover the crawler has indexed lot of my pages. Great Job Yahooooo!!!

Posted by: india1 | November 4, 2008 12:08 PM

Very nice improvement guys! I added my website to it and I really like the way you can easily find inlinks for each page.

Posted by: Alex Griffin | November 5, 2008 08:56 AM

It's nice to see Yahoo reaching out to the web developers and helping them help themselves. We all want a #1 rank for any given search term. These types of tools gives a way to get there.

Posted by: Emiliano Acuna | November 6, 2008 05:24 PM

I've been using the site explorer since my yahoo toolbar was updated. Since I prefer windows IE I use the tab menu of yahoo instead as of Mozilla

Posted by: raphnix | November 6, 2008 11:15 PM

hmm.. i believe that this is a great tool - but i hope future development would make it 'faster' - in terms of indexing the site and etc..

Posted by: Cruiseins | November 19, 2008 12:45 AM

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