Yahoo's Answer to Google Sitemaps

Yahoo! has launched their own version of Google Sitemaps, called Yahoo! Site Explorer.

Site Explorer lets you access the information Yahoo! stores about a site's online presence. You can see which sites and subpages are indexed by Yahoo! Search, track sites that link into webpage, and view the most popular pages from any site. Major uses of Site Explorer are to:

* Find which subpages within a URL are indexed by Yahoo!
* Find pages that link to that site or any page (incoming links)
* Submit and track XML feeds for your own sites

Just like with Google Sitemaps, you have access to more detailed information about your site or its content when you authenticate or validate your site and feeds by uploading a verification file.

You can use Yahoo! Site Explorer's search function to explore a site just like you were conducting a normal web search. Instead of entering a "query term" you will enter a site's URL and Site Explorer will use the URL you submit to return particular information related to the structure of that URL in the Yahoo! Search database and on the Web.

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