In the past, we have covered the launch of Google's Webmaster Central and Microsoft Live Search's Webmaster Tools. Today, we explore Yahoo! Search's Resources for Webmasters...
Your site might already be in the Yahoo! Search index if it has been crawled by the Yahoo! Search spider following links to your web pages. If your site is not already indexed, you can Submit a Website / Feed to be included for free. To ensure your website gets listed in the index, read the Yahoo! Search Content Quality Guidelines. You can also Submit Your Mobile Phone Site and Submit Media RSS Content for free inclusion in Yahoo! Search. If you are having problems getting listed, you can use the Yahoo! Search URL Status Review Form to find out why or contact the Yahoo! Search Support Team (or you may want to consider paying for Guaranteed Inclusion)
Yahoo!'s free analytical tool for websites listed in the Search index is the Yahoo! Site Explorer: displaying details of your site's pages indexed, a cache of the last time it was crawled, and a list of incoming links from other web pages in the index. Log-in and authenticate your website for even more data and control over how your site is indexed. Learn more About Site Explorer. If you are proud of the number of backlinks to your site, you can display the current count with a Yahoo! Site Explorer Badge. Keep up-to-date with the latest developments at the Yahoo! Search Team's Blog. To get the best results for your site in Yahoo! Search, we also recommend researching Yahoo! Search Indexing, Search Ranking and Yahoo!'s Web Crawler
