Y-Key

Jim,
I have a yahoo y-key and my sites that I submitted to yahoo are "authenticated", I guess using that y-key. Should I leave that y-key on my site. How about the google key?

Thanks,

Roger

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Hi Roger,

You are referring to Site Explorer at Yahoo and adding a website to the list of sites to monitor. For those of you not using Site Explorer, it is a great way to have Yahoo tell you how it sees your site, errors and much more. Google's webmaster tools is a similar service.

When you tell Yahoo about your site, it will ask you to authenticate the site. It does this because they will be giving you confidential data about your site and if the competition got a hold of this, they would know how to beat your site. Only the webmaster of the site can authenticate (this is, only the person who can create a file / or modify a file on the server can authenticate).

You have two ways to authenticate. One is to create a file on the server and enter the special code as contents for that file

or

Create a meta tag of Meta Name "Y_key" in the head section of your main webpage. The y_key meta tag is the easiest option.

Will it have an impact on the load of your site? No, not anything that would make any difference.

I personally use the file rather then the y-key (small neurosis about privacy, not that anyone could extrapolate more than knowing you're using Yahoo to track stats.).

So, in short - no, no impact.

Regards,

Jim.

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