Comments on: Yahoo Explorer shows top viewed pages on web sites

By: Explore Web Pages Indexed by Yahoo! Search With Site Explorer « Sabahan.com

Explore Web Pages Indexed by Yahoo! Search With Site Explorer « Sabahan.com — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:14:38 +0000

[…] Web Publishing Blog’s Andrew Johnson points us to a little tool called the Yahoo! Site Explorer which can help us learn more about all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search. […]

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 15:44:08 +0000

Hmm, for my blog the data is about right, showing the Markus Frind interview as number one. Obviously they don’t have your exact stats so they are getting this data from either a toolbar or may be the traffic Yahoo’s SERPs are sending to your site.

By: Lea

Lea — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 07:58:50 +0000

I’m not sure the order means what you think it does - I just checked one of my sites, and the number 1 result is a tiny obscure page which probably doesn’t get much if *any* traffic, and the number 4 is a page that doesn’t exist. Yes, it returns a 404 (you bet I checked! Ahhhh! ;))
Does it say anywhere that it is in ‘most popular’ order? I couldn’t spot it anywhere…
None of the first page load are ‘popular’ pages, like, ooh, say - the home page?
Hmmm…. it is possible that they are newly crawled pages, as I have made some site changes to the lower levels recently.

HIH!

By: chris

chris — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:51:16 +0000

Even better…use it to find popular products / trends on sites like oh…amazon. I just tried it. Da Vinci code was number 3…their privacy statement was number 2.