Yahoo! Site Explorer (YSE) was a

Yahoo! Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and operated by the namesake company Yahoo Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Mana ...

service which allowed users to view information on websites in Yahoo!'s search index. The service was closed on November 21, 2011 and merged with Bing Webmaster Tools, a tool similar to Google Search Console (previously Google Webmaster Tools). In particular, it was useful for finding information on

backlink A backlink is a link from some other website (the referrer) to that web resource (the referent). A ''web resource'' may be (for example) a website, web page, or web directory. A backlink is a reference comparable to a citation. The quantity, q ...

s pointing to a given webpage or domain because YSE offered full, timely backlink reports for any site. After merging with Bing Webmaster Tools, the service only offers full backlink reports to sites owned by the webmaster. Reports for sites not owned by the webmaster are limited to 1,000 links.

Webmasters A webmaster is a person responsible for maintaining one or more websites. The title may refer to web architects, web developers, site authors, website administrators, website owners, website coordinators, or website publishers. The duties of ...

who added a special authentication code to their websites were also allowed to: * See extra information on their sites * Submit

Sitemaps The Sitemaps protocol allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling. A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about ea ...

* Submit up to 20 URL removal requests for their domains to Yahoo!. * Rewrite dynamic URLs from their site by either removing a dynamic parameter or by using a default value for a parameter. * Submit feeds for Yahoo Search Monkey * View Errors Yahoo encountered while crawling their web site

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{{Yahoo! Inc. Site Exploreri Search engine webmaster tools