A lot of webmasters use Yahoo! Search to get page and inlink data about their site, using ’site:’, ‘link:’, ‘linkdomain:’ queries. Starting last night, we are redirecting all queries of this nature to the Site Explorer results pages, so that you can benefit from this tool’s additional features.
To reiterate, the following types of queries will be redirected:
- site:ysearchblog.com
- link:http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000341.html
- linkdomain:ysearchblog.com
All other queries, such as the ones below, will not be redirected:
- ysearchblog.com
- ysearchblog
- site:ysearchblog.com webmasters (looking for ysearchblog posts mentioning webmasters)
- link:http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000341.html Danny Sullivan (looking for links to the article mentioning Danny Sullivan)
- linkdomain:ysearchblog.com site:yahoo.com (looking for links to ysearchblog from within yahoo.com)
Site Explorer, since its launch last year, has had various features geared to serve webmaster needs for data about their web site, such as data downloads in TSV format and more accurate counts of results. On Tuesday we launched an upgraded version of the Site Explorer with several new features.
For those of you who will be seeing Site Explorer for the first time, we hope that you will find that these features make your lives easier.
If you want to extract this data programmatically, please use our Web Service APIs. The APIs provide the same data and will be more stable and easier to parse than our search page, which we regularly change to make user experience improvements for our users.
A hearty thank you to the many webmasters who have tried out Site Explorer’s new functionality since the Tuesday update. If you haven’t visited yet stop by to register your site and let us know your thoughts on Site Explorer in our forum.
Tags: yahoo, site search