Comparison of Google Sitemaps Webmaster Tools with Yahoo! Site Explorer

I've been using Google's Webmaster Tools for several years now, probably since it first came out in English. I’ve used it consistently up until now, and it works very smoothly.

A few days ago, by chance, I visited Yahoo! Site Explorer, so I created a urllist.txt file for the newly built China International Labor Information Network website and uploaded it there. There was also a site verification step, where I uploaded the required authentication file to the website as instructed, but after three days, it still hadn't passed, even though it said it would be within 24 hours. With no other choice, I added a meta tag to the homepage. The next day, it worked fine.

Google’s Webmaster Tools support RSS and Atom, and I thought Yahoo should support them too, so I added the RSS links from the forum, blog, and Digg. Surprisingly, it worked!

However, Yahoo's interface is in English, and my English has always been poor, so it’s a bit challenging to use. Below, the first interface is the list of feeds, and the second interface shows the explorer for the China International Labor Information Network.