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6 comments on “Yahoo Delete URL Feature Disaster Waiting to Happen”

1. Urls über den Yahoo Site Explorer aus dem Yahoo-Index löschen - ein Sicherheitsrisiko? Says:

   January 30th, 2007 at 8:18 pm

   [...] Dazu Jeremy Luebke: It is literally a disaster waiting to happen. There is zero verification other than being logged into the proper Yahoo account to delete an entire site from the Yahoo index. […] If this loop hole is not fixed it’s only a matter of time before webmasters start waking up to entire sites missing from the Yahoo index. Yahoo accounts are too accessible to phishing and hack attempts to be the only barrier for such a powerful tool. [...]

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   Priyank Garg Says:

   January 31st, 2007 at 2:32 am

   We regularly recheck that a site has the user’s authentication file present every few days. If ever we realize that the authentication file is removed we reverse all actions that were taken by that account. Hence, if your userid is ever compromised, immediately remove your authentication key from your site to undo any unwanted actions on Site Explorer. This is also documented in the Site Explorer Help http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/siteexplorer/siteexplorer-49.htm l (refer note at the bottom).

3. Tha Tech Net Podcast » Blog Archive » Yahoo Delete URL Feature Disaster Waiting to Happen Says:

   January 31st, 2007 at 6:13 am

   [...] how anyone can delete a website from the yahoo search engineread more | digg story [...]

4. SEOPittfall » Blog Archive » Be Careful Where You Click Says:

   March 14th, 2007 at 8:56 pm

   [...] Here are what others are saying: Marketing Pilgrim: “The feature I am most interested in and also worried about is the new “delete URL” feature. It is literally a disaster waiting to happen. There is zero verification other than being logged into the proper Yahoo account to delete an entire site from the Yahoo index.” [...]

5. BuzzBlog » Blog Archive » Linkdump: linkbaiting, copywriting, Yahoo, Adwords e.v.a. Says:

   July 19th, 2007 at 5:07 am

   [...] Search Engine Land praat over de nieuwe ‘delete url‘ mogelijkheid in Yahoo. Danny Sullivan legt uitgebreid uit hoe het werkt, bijvoorbeeld door het te vergelijken met index exclusion regels in robots.txt en in meta-robots. Als je de ‘delete url’ feature van Yahoo site explorer gebruikt, wordt je pagina nog steeds gecrawld, maar het wordt niet opgenomen in de index. Deze optie is met name handig als je SNEL iets wil verwijderen uit de index van Yahoo. Er wordt stilgestaan bij de mogelijke veiligheidsrisico’s naar aanleiding van een post op Marketingpilgrim. [...]

6. Be Careful Where You Click » SEOpittfall Says:

   June 14th, 2008 at 10:30 pm

   [...] are what others are saying: Marketing Pilgrim: “The feature I am most interested in and also worried about is the new “delete URL” [...]

 

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