Do you use YahooSiteExplorer? If you don’t, you might be missing a lot. Because since I started using it (submitted my blog), Yahoo’s search bot started crawling more pages of my blog at a more frequent rate.
As you can see to the right, Yahoo bot (green) crawls a lot more pages than Google and MSN bots.
This crawl rate graph was generated by this plugin.
What is Yahoo Site Explorer?
It is a tool that lets you access the information Yahoo has about a site’s online presence. You can see which sites and subpages are indexed by Yahoo Search, track sites that link into webpage, and view the most popular pages of your site (or any site for that matter).
With Yahoo Site Explorer, now everybody can submit their sites to Yahoo Search Engine for inclusion for free. Remember, before you had to pay to Yahoo if you wanted to include your site faster?
If you submit your site to Site Explorer and authenticate it, you will be able to tell Yahoo which pages to ignore and drop from the search index. This tool also allows you to enter your RSS url, it will automatically track the changes of your blog. (screenshot of Site Explorer below).
How to calculate Crawl Rate
SEOMeter.com has a great tool to calculate your site’s crawl rate. If your blog or site is already popular, SEOMeter might already have some stats for your site. But if it doesn’t, then you will have to add your site first. It took me about 2 weeks to get AdesBlog tracked by SEOMeter.
Another useful article. No I had not heard of it. Heading there now to submit my site.How do you decide which pages to drop or have it ignore?
Thanks for the reminder – I haven’t used Yahoo’s Site Explorer for some time and will go check it out. It’s a great tool. I need to check out the plugin and SEOMeter tool – both interest me.
This article has been an eye opener. I did not know that this existed. Thanks.
dude you have the best content inthe whole world. Where do you find this whole gold to put on your blog.
please advice me sumthg for my blog
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Good post, I stop in there periodically to see what Yahoo has indexed on my blog.
Thanks for sharing. I just submit my blog to Yahoo Site Explorer
thanks….doing it now
Funny how Yahoo is the less favoured search engine, but when it comes to analysis their results are so much more accurate than Googles. The fact that their bot is so much more inquisitive than googlebot points this out yet again.
I am glad you have found it useful.
This is an eye opener indeed cos i nver heard of anything like this before now.I’d give it a trial later.
I am also using yahoo site explorer and it works fine for me too. but i never thougt to share my knowledge… Thanks for sharing ades…
Yahoo beats Google on so many fronts, just not on popularity. Why is this the case? Is Google’s lead in the search engine marketplace so insurmountable?
Wow, it seems like great, I am gonna check it now…
I use Yahoo Site Explorer and find it highly useful for web development. I find it definitely helps for quicker indexing.
Hey i just noticed that, even though i have subscribed ur blog i hv not received ur posts from last few months.
u might wanna check on that
Reg
Rushit Shah
http://www.rushitshah.com