Web master tools are becoming increasingly popular as far as the biggies of the search engines are concerned. It is highly obvious that the search engine corporations have started paying more attention on the reviews of the webmasters and have taken a step forward to provide them with beneficial tools to guarantee brand veracity in the coming age. The search engines have matured up and the result is that in the recent times, the technological giants like Yahoo and Google have come up with all sorts of tools to improve traffic and result in escalated search engine ranks to reap huge benefits for the concerned online business.
Release of the site explorer
Yahoo has devised a tool especially for all those website owners who can see all the pages contained in a site and the sub domains contained within the site as indexed by the huge Yahoo directory. This tool was mainly designed to promote the communicative feedback between the website owners and the employees of Yahoo. It facilitates the web site owners to sight all the incoming links that are directing to a specific domain. There are several advantageous features associated with the Yahoo site explorer. But ever since its inception, Yahoo has had rave reviews about its response to the consumer inquiries and complains about the ranking in the directory. The site explorer by Yahoo is just another leap to get a good reputation amongst the masses and change their opinion about the company.
Initially one would require a validated username and a password with Yahoo and setting up an account isn’t too intricate a process. Once you reach the navigator, you would be required to sign in and then you would be automatically directed to a page where in you can submit your site pretty effortlessly. Yahoo claims to present a complete site map but usually the links to several other pages is considered as the site map itself. But it would be an interesting phenomenon to know the technique it uses to compare the keywords between different sites and match up the user scores. At the moment, the experts believe that the Yahoo site explorer is merely a testing place for link popularity.
Features
To elaborate more on the features of the Yahoo site explorer, very obviously the first benefit of this kind of an explorer is to verify the pages that have been indexed. If in case you have a lot of pages that are not indexed, you might want to check out if your site is actually search engine friendly and operates on its standards or not.
An important feature of this explorer is that it lets you export some initial thousand records into a TSV file format and then this format could be opened with any spreadsheet file like Microsoft Excel that supports variable inputs too. This can very effectively turn out to be an important mode of determining which sites provide the maximum number of links to your website. The most important aspect of this determination is that the sites that link in to your website are interested in your product or services and thus it would be a better thought to contact them and strengthen a long lasting working relationship. Site explorer has come up with unique ways to submit your site and has tried making the process as trouble-free as possible. All you need to do is submit as an RSS feed or just punch in all the URLs into a text file and then go about submitting the text file. However, there is not a detached flap that shows the list of the submitted URLs.
Yahoo revised the features of it site explorer very recently in the year 2006 and now it has some more advanced tools to benefit the webmasters. There is a feature that shows the “Last Crawled” date and it does nothing but lists down the times your website has been visited by Yahoo. Another feature integrated was the language tool that shows the language of the pages contained in the website. The next feature can be called the filtering feature of the explorer as it shows the indexed pages from all the sub domains and then gives you an option to stay on a selected domain rather than getting mixed up with pages from all the sub domains. For all of those webmasters who have automated interfaces and whenever you make an update to your application, it allows you to notify Yahoo about the changes made and for that reason it is called the “page update notification service”.
The Yahoo site explorer has become awfully unavoidable as it will be mandatory to list down the sites or the domains of any website. It can be useful for all the webmasters to track down the detailed activities of their competitors. Along with it is also important for all kinds of keyword detection so that it simplifies the process of search engine optimization.
The tools provided by the Yahoo site explorer may perhaps not be ground breaking but they surely help with making some easy research. They have very effortlessly simplified the whole process of competitor analysis by making manual queries automatically available. On the larger picture, Yahoo site explorer has its own set of uses along with some prominent drawbacks. Yahoo still needs to incorporate a lot of user friendly features before it goes live from the beta version to compete against the very efficient Google site maps.
Source :DirectoryDice.com
