Friday, November 03, 2006

Links to Search Engine Webmaster Tools (Google, Yahoo, MSN)

After the invent of Google's Webmaster tools there appeared the Yahoo Site Manager. I suspect that MSN is going to be next in that space. It is in these tools that the user gets the ability to configure some of the high level details for search engine optimization.

(1) Google - Webmaster Tools
(2) Yahoo - Site Explorer
(3) MSN/live search - MSN Search Web Crawler and Site Indexing Tools and Services for Site Owners - No tools/submission
(4) Ask.com - Webcrawler information - No tools/submission

For those of you that are casual interested in increasing your page ranks/positions, this would be these would be the places to go.

At this point in time, the primary functionality these appear to provide is the ability to submit Sitemap feeds to the search engine. Allowing for two methods of listing sites for these search engines, (one) the crawler/bot and (two) the submission of URLs.

Prior blogs on a similar vein:
(1) Google Webmaster Tools and HOWTO/how to add a sitemap for Blogger/blogspot.com
(2) Google webmaster Tools and HOWTO/how to verify your Blogger/blogspot.com site

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