Yahoo Site Explorer Leaves Beta, Adds Features

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007;
-- Andy Beal |

Yahoo has announced the Site Explorer tool (their version of Google Webmaster Tools) has officially left beta and has gained some new features.

Site Explorer now supports mobile site feeds, offers more URL delete options and introduces a “Report Spam” submission button.

While it’s a great step forward, Site Explorer is still very limited, when compared to the Google counterpart, but I’m sure they’ll get there.

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Drew Stauffer Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 11:19 am
Andy,
Do you agree with Rand’s opinion that he thinks you should verify but not submit your sitemap?

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/expert-advice-on-google-sitemaps-verify-but -dont-submit

And does this go for Yahoo Site Explorer as well?
Andy Beal Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 11:31 am
Drew - I don’t think there’s a one size fits all approach. With some sites it makes sense to submit the sitemap, others you might only use a partial list of pages in a sitemap, other you won’t submit.

My normal preference is to not submit one, and let the crawlers do their thing.

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