How you format or specify the URL that you submit to Site Explorer influences what kind of results you get. You can specify URLs in various formats. Here are examples of various URL formats with a description of the kind of results you would receive.
Note: If you submit text that is not recognized as a URL, you will receive an error.
Site Home Page
Example: http://www.yahoo.com
Note: Entering the URL http://www.yahoo.com would only return result that have a leading www.
It would not return results from http://maps.yahoo.com since http://maps.yahoo.com is not a subdomain of http://www.yahoo.com.
Domain Name
Example: http://yahoo.com
Fully Qualified Path Name
Example: http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/info/index.html
Partial Path of a URL, or a URL That is Also a Directory
Example: http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/info
- If you enter a partial path, you will get all URLs to that path (and below) from within that domain only.
- If the path is also a URL, you will see inlinks to that path. However, if the path is a directory but not a file, it might not have inlinks to view.