Yahoo Updates Site Explorer for Webmasters

Following in the steps of Google Yahoo have updated their webmaster site explorer functions. Learn things like when your site was last crawled, use inlinks to see your backlinks (download 1000 results)and manage your rss or atom feed submissions.
Login to your Yahoo account and check it out; a url which may work for you is;
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites. One thing Yahoo could do is sort out logging in to services it is a bit confusing currently.

Yahoo release new "Slurp" crawler

Yahoo last week released their updated slurp crawler, stating it will be more efficient, use less bandwidth and be 25% faster. Come on Yahoo is all i can say the sooner everyone gets over this Google Google Google phase the better we will all be. Yahoo is a regular staple in my household after time spent living in New York.

Google Adsense Mediabot

Hi to ensure your sites deliver relevant Adsense ads make sure your webmaster configures your site to allow the Google mediabot access. Mediabot is used to decide what ads to display on pages. So make sure you have this code in your robots.txt file;

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:

Yahoo Index update

Yahoo did an index update a few days ago, i am still finding old pages in the index though high time they were cleared out.

Google release Adwords Editor

Hurray Google have released Adwords Editor, for editing large adwords accounts locally on your machine. This is a great step forward to managing adwords accounts and i have been using it today to great effect. You can download and edit campaigns locally making major changes easily then uploading changes at any time.

Yahoo Announces upgrade to Search Advertising System

No surprise after losing MSN in the US Yahoo has announced an upgrade to its rather old interface and new analytics offerings. First step is to upgrade core technology and analytics platform then to roll out new marketing campaign interface. No one likes the current interface and one wonders why it has taken them so long to actually do this.
I can't wait is all I can say. We must thank Google for giving away webstats via old Urchin product as now MSN and Yahoo have to follow suit.

MSN AdCenter Opens the door in the US

The new MSN AdCenter has gone live in the US, I will be setting up accounts over the next week so will post some thoughts after i have used it a bit and seen some results. MSN lacks traffic in the US, but the interface and possibilities look great.