SEO AdviceYahoo to redirect webmaster queries to Site Explorer
A lot of webmasters use Yahoo! Search to get page and inlink data about their site, using ’site:’, ‘link:’, ‘linkdomain:’ queries. Beginning a few days ago, Yahoo is 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)