I have always been a big fan of Yahoo’s Site Explorer for your SEO research. We talked about how the tools has been continuing to get better and Yahoo has added even more to it.
The Yahoo! Site Explorer team has created some great new features for site owners that provide you with even more information about your site. Experienced Site Explorer users will notice that we now have much more detailed page-level and site-level dashboard information for verified site owners.
At the page level, you can now see your SearchMonkey object statistics. This means that if you’ve marked up your pages or provided us a feed that matches one of our existing SearchMonkey templates, your page will display all of the SearchMonkey objects we’ve indexed on that page.
They have also included Yahoo! Search keyterms and Delicious bookmark information for this page (A BIG WIN). Site Explorer gives you a great way to explore all sorts of metadata about your pages, whether it comes from SearchMonkey, Delicious, or our term extraction code.
It also provides a site-level dashboard that displays additional information, including the number of SearchMonkey feeds you submitted and a history of any custom actions you have requested for your site (such as defining URL query parameters that you want us to ignore).
I can’t stress enough that if you have a site or SEO sites to make sure you have signed up for this FREE service. The level of information you get is as good as it gets for your SEO needs.
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Excellent tips, anytime we can get information about our sites from the engines it is a win for site owners and SEO’s. We can only hope that the Yahoo! search team is one of assets that stays intact as the they transition search over to Bing.
Hi,
I’m also noticing that there seems to be a reduction in the number of backlinks reported in Site Explorer for some websites.
Have you made any changes in this regard as well?
Actually many in the industry are reporting that Yahoo Site Explorer will be no more after the Yahoo/Bing merge. I personally like SEOMOZ’s toolset but it does come at a cost with their pro membership.