Yahoo just announced new features for their site explorer service. Basically the same idea behind Google webmaster central except it’s a little bit slow on progress in terms of features. So you can understand how these new features like authenticating your website via a meta tag and Link Count badge are important.
Yahoo Site Explorer: This new ability to able to authenticate that you own a website via a META tag copies Google Webmaster Central’ s tool. Before you could authenticate your website via uploading a file. Now it’s both this will help freely hosted websites like Blogger or Wordpress.com blogs get their blogs verified. This also with better reporting of the errors encountered during the authentication. I am writing this as I am authenticating several of my Blogger blogs myself.
Site Explorer Link Count Badge: Officially called the Site Explorer Badge it is an original idea by Yahoo to give users the ability to display how many links they have on their website. This link count is taken straight out of the Site Explorer.
Delete URLs: You can delete your URL from the Yahoo Site Explorer and it will be deleted from Yahoo’s index. Though easily achieved through the robots.txt file this is an easier way to get your website removed from the Yahoo index fast.
The Rest Of The New Yahoo Site Explorer Features:
- More than 25 sitemaps
- better labeling of TSV files
- Site explorer should identify itself in the user agent string
- https / ssl
- Wait 1 day? (Speed of authentication)
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