New feature: Yahoo! Site Explorer Authentication
Friday, October 27th, 2006
Are you looking for information on how your store pages are indexed by Yahoo! Search? Register and authenticate your store with Yahoo! Site Explorer to get detailed information about search activities on your Yahoo! Store.
What is Yahoo! Site Explorer
Site Explorer is a tool that lets you access the information Yahoo! has in our search index about a site’s online presence. You can see which sites and subpages are indexed by Yahoo! Search, track sites that link into your pages, and view the most popular pages from any site.
Use Site Explorer to:
- Find which subpages within a URL are indexed by Yahoo!.
- Find pages that link to that site or any page. (inlinks)
- Submit and track feeds for your sites.
More info on Yahoo! Site Explorer
What do I need to do?
Register your Yahoo! Store:
- Sign in to Yahoo! Site Explorer and register your Yahoo! store.
- Once your store has been registered, click the Authenticate button to obtain your alpha-numeric filename and contents.
(e.g. Filename: y_key_7abe9b660c327bb1.html, File contents: b171066591908be4)
Authenticate your Yahoo! Store:
- Open a new browser window and go to Yahoo! Small Business.
- Sign in to your Store Manager and click the Search Engines link under the Promote Section.
- In the Authenticate with Yahoo! Site Explorer section, enter the alpha-numeric Filename and File Contents that you have obtained from Site Explorer.
- After clicking Done, publish your Order Settings.
Tell Site Explorer Your Store is ready to Authenticate:
- Return to Site Explorer, and click Ready to Authenticate. Site Explorer will then check for the authentication file within 24 hours and your site should be authenticated. Learn more.
Yahoo! Site Explorer contains many valuable features for site owners. Take advantage of these tools by registering and authenticating your Yahoo! store today.
Duncan Shen
Yahoo! Small Business
Comments
[...] Yahoo Store owners now can be use Site Explorer to get their store pages are indexed by Yahoo. More details are on Yahoo! Store Blog. [...]
Pingback by Search Engine Papers_Online paper where you get the latest search engine news, learn about search engine trends — October 31, 2006 @ 5:54 pm
[...] You can now authenticate your Yahoo! store with Yahoo! Site Explorer. Addition of this feature was announced by Yahoo! Search Blog. Priyank Garg, product manager, Yahoo! Site Explorer said “Basically, that means you now you have the ability to add your Site Explorer key to your Small Business site.” Yahoo! Store Blog has listed three features of site explorer from which you can benefit. The features are: find which sub-pages within a URL are indexed by Yahoo!, find pages hat link to that site or any page (inlinks) and submit and track feeds for your sites. [...]
Pingback by Authentication Feature Added To Yahoo! Site Explorer » Unofficial SEO Blog - SEO Information much before its official! — November 1, 2006 @ 12:45 pm
So…will there be support to “Submit Site Feed” in the future?
Comment by bobsc — November 2, 2006 @ 7:54 pm
Yes there will be support to submit a site feed in the future. We are working with the Site Explorer team to make this happen.
Paul
Comment by Administrator — November 2, 2006 @ 9:13 pm
I did the above, but when I logged back into my legacy store, the area to submit the file names, as well as any mention of yahoo site explorer were not to be found?
any advice? does this work with legacy stores?
Comment by c ford — November 3, 2006 @ 1:22 am
Yes–this feature is available to Legacy stores as well. Go to the Search Engines page appearing in the Promote column of the Store Manager. If you do not see this area, please contact our customer care team for assistance.
Paul
Comment by Administrator — November 3, 2006 @ 7:26 am
Howdy,
I’ve been trying to authenticate my store now for about a week and failed about 4 times.
I keep following the instructions but it keeps failing.
Can I get some help please. right now Yahoo has 74 of my pages and I have over 600. I could really use the exposure of those pages as we get into holidays. Thanks in advance.
M C
Sorry I didn’t leave my url http://www.docksidebait.com
It took me a long time to figure out advertizment with yahoo and I don’t know how to explor my website to around the world. I need some help for my website get indexed all over the world please and thank you. I have a very big online superstore here please come visit my website too and enjoy your shopping. Thank you. God Bless you all!!!
Comment by iarasgifts — February 25, 2007 @ 3:11 am
yahoo don’t show for my website in search engine. Someone tell me what is going on here please?
Comment by iaragift.com — March 5, 2007 @ 1:24 am
Iaragifts webmaster
This blog is for Yahoo! Store. Your question is better asked on the Yahoo! Search blog or forum.
Since we are in a separate group I couldn’t tell you the answer as to why your site may not be found. If your URL is not indexed, you should be able to submit it for inclusion. You can also use the instructions there for authenticating your site for Site Explorer to get info about how Yahoo! views your site (the instructions here are for Yahoo! Store merchants specifically).
Paul
Comment by Administrator — March 12, 2007 @ 2:52 am
I have been monitoring my store using the Site Explorer for a while. I noticed that the number of the subpages as well as the Inlinks vary a great deal every day, even every couple hours. I also notice that only a very small fraction of the subpage has been indexed even though I have submitted the main page as well as the sitemap a while ago. Any suggestions anyone? How can I get all the subpages of my site to be indexed?
Comment by The Dog Clothing Company — July 12, 2007 @ 5:25 pm
This is a great tool, works better then the google one.
Comment by Remix Retro Tees — August 20, 2007 @ 5:13 am
Been using this for about 6 months, very handy.
Comment by Sexy Politics — March 19, 2008 @ 6:31 pm
So now that I have both of my stores authenticated (thanks for fixing that!), how do I submit a feed? Can I just put in the catalog.xml url?
It would look like http://www.mystorename.com/catalog.xml
Is that right?
Comment by Teri Fritts — October 28, 2006 @ 2:06 pm