Yahoo Site Explorer; Are you familiar with this ?
Yes this is a silly question to the webmaster and bloggers who had been using it for spying and checking back-links. Yes, this was one of the Free tool used by most of the webmasters to find out the Back-links of a website as well as inbound links of a website indexed by Yahoo. It was shut down by Yahoo in 21st November 2011 which is missed by lot of users of Yahoo Site Explorer.
So what Next ?
You want spy on your competitors website to find their back-links and win them but you are looking for FREE Tool, Yes Yahoo site explorer is no more helping you this time so what can be the alternatives of Yahoo site explorer ??? A lot of you may be curious to get the soft and sweet answer of this question, also may be some of you know some of the Yahoo site explorer alternatives that you are using for checking backlinks of your websites. So guys today i will try to include most of the Websites that help you check backlinks of any websites for FREE, yes some of them may say you to register for Full access or also some of them may ask you to get Premium account but don’t worry i will mention about these things so you can straightly ignore or get on them. Lets get started —>
Linkdiagnosis.com – This website helps yo to find backinks, check pagerank, check DOfollow or NOfollow links, PR of backlink page with outbound links of the page from where the website is linked to. Much more better then yahoo site explorer and one of the best alternative. The best part is you can see the most of the backlink exist no restriction as in Yahoo site explorer.
Open Site Explorer : Open Site Explorer just like the name have various options and handy FREE tool for finding Backlinks. It has option to Register but you can also use the tool without any obstacle for FREE. It is also easy and good Backlink Cheacker – Good Yahoo site explorer alternative.
Backlink Watch : Yes Backlink Watch is absolutely FREE Backlink Checker Tool and quite similar to Yahoo site explorer, it shows the backlink pages with Outbound links, anchor text and PR of the site. The only annoying is it displays Ads on clicking enter after entering domain name that you may get confuse if you are using it for first time.
Exalead – Search : When i arrived on this site i thought this is a search engine; Yes it is but it gives you result of the sites that are linked with the domain you enter in the Search Box. Really cool give a try to this …
SEOattack : This website is also good but the main annoying thing is it asks to Register for Free for watching all details. Otherwise this is also one of the good alternative of yahoo site explorer in finding backlinks.
Other sites that requires to Register either FREE or Paid :-
- http://ahrefs.com/
- http://www.majesticseo.com/reports/site-explorer/
- http://www.webseoanalytics.com/free/seo-tools/backlink-analysis.php
If you guys know more sites then don’t forget leave in comment section Below 🙂
Thanx for sharing this information.
thans dude… i found in here….. Thanks a lot of
Thank you – this post is very useful.
Thanks for the post, I’ve used backlinkwatch I’m not sure if it’s up to date because I’ve been backlinking and I have yet to see a link on backlinkwatch to my website.
thank you for the post very useful one
Thank you.
You saved me a lot of time.
Thank you. You saved me a lot of time.
thank you so much
it is really very hard for the seoer without yahoo exploier. and thanks for your kind collection, wish it will be useful.
Thanks for the list.
You did a great job summarizing a few Yahoo Site Explorer alternatives here and I learned about webseoanalytics tool which I had never heard of. Here are a few suggestions we have reviewed which you might be interested in linking to and/or adding to your own list:
Ahrefs
Backlink Watch
Bing Webmaster Tools
Blekko
Google Webmaster Tools
Link Diagnosis
Linkdex
Link Research Tools
Majestic SEO Site Explorer
Open Site Explorer
SEO Attack
We also have a few more on the TODO list to review which may be useful. The full into can be found here if anyone is interested:
http://siteexplorer.co
All the best, and thanks for the useful post!
Although none of them, neither all of them combined, can compare to what Y! SiteExplorer was, this is still an excellent collection, thank you !
good post. everybody is looking for yahoo site explorer’s substitute.
I didn’t realise there were so many alternatives to YSE. I am looking forward to checking them out.
Good sharing. With the closure of Yahoo Site Explorer, I am dying looking for a good alternative! Looks like Linkdiagnosis is the best one now…
Good job really very help full information Thanks for sharing.
Great Information…Good Job
Thank you
Hi,
I think you could also mention my Link Research Tools!
That being said, you will LOVE the new QBL that we launch tomorrow.
If you’re quick you can still signup for an account here at no cost
http://www.linkresearchtools.com/lp/free-lrt-account-here/
Best regards
Christoph C. Cemper
creator of Link Research Tools
PS: QBL will be fast!
PPS: QBL will be very very affordable!
PPPS: QBL will outdo ANY other backlink checking tool again, like the more expensive options of LRT as well
YSE was the best for me. Yahoo make a big mistake to shut down this service.
Thanks for the listing. I will check them out. Can’t believe Yahoo site explorer is gone.
I am really disappointed that Yahoo Site Explorer is gone. It was the best backlink checking tool because it loaded instantly and you were able to check how many links points to internal pages with one single click.
Today I checked some 8-10 tools that are available and my site has around 10 backlinks according to those tools but before Yahoo Site Explorer where closed it showed around 500 backlinks and all from high quality blog networks, so I can’t track my and my competitor backlinks as I could back in the days.
Hopefully someone will develop new tool as market is ready to catch up with it!
Thanks a lot. I was really sad when it was closed .. I relay need a service like that.. I must say open site explorer seams to be a good alternative
Thanks for this; really helpful. If you can ignore the pop ups, I found Backlink Watch to be the most useful.
Backlink Watch has a wrong URL, there is one “l” too many.
Thanks Urmet, its corrected now.
Awesome, very useful post. Yahoo SE is a tool we’ve all relied on. Don’t know if it’s better than these ?
Oh god thanks for this post – I used to use link explorer all of the time and am gutted it has gone.
Great list you have here thank you for taking the time to post this article.