What are Yahoo APIs?

BlueSEO — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:50:57 -0500

Yahoo Site Explorer APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) provide access to information about user websites from the Yahoo Site Explorer service. The following APIs help users understand their traffic and site usage better by querying for the pages in the Yahoo index.

Site Explorer APIs include:

Inlink Data service - tracks inbound links - allows users to retrieve information about the sites linking to a particular page or pages within a domain.
PageData service - finds subpages - allows users to retrieve information about the subpages, in a domain or beneath a path, that exist within the Yahoo index.

Other Yahoo Search APIs include:

BOSS (Build your Own Search Service)

Audio Search
Content Analysis
Image Search
Local Search
MyWeb
News Search
Video Search
Web Search

What is Yahoo Site Explorer?

BlueSEO — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:47:20 -0500

Yahoo Site Explorer allows users to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo Search. Users submit their site URL to get particular information related to the structure of that URL in the Yahoo Search database.

Site Explorer can be used to:

Find which sites and subpages are indexed by Yahoo Search.
View the most popular pages from any site.
Find pages that link to that site or any of its pages.
Submit and track feeds for sites.

By authenticating a website through Yahoo Site Explorer, users get more detailed information and greater ability to manage a site and its URLs. Users can:

Find out which subdomains of the site are known to Yahoo.
View other information Yahoo detects about the site, such as language.
Delete URLs that they don't want indexed by Yahoo.

Yahoo Site Explorer APIs help users to better understand traffic origins and the way visitors are interacting with their sites.