Yahoo To Turn Off Site Explorer
Posted by Richard Stokes on July 11, 2011 to
Yahoo and Microsoft have announced that Yahoo Site Explorer will be shut down by the end of the year. While Microsoft has promised to offer a replacement backlink reporting tool, the number of links this tool will make available to webmasters is yet uncertain. Like Site Explorer, Google limits backlink data to 1,000 results and also imposes strict throttling limits on tools and other automated agents, so SEOs can expect to face increasing difficulty in procuring this data.
AdGooroo's Chief Linking Evangelist, Eric Ward, had this to say:
"While I'm sad to see YSE go, any of you who have attended my conference sessions at SMX over the years have heard me say that it was only a matter of time before the engines reduced and removed our ability to extract linking info. The link: operator was not an SEO birthright, it was a gift. Now that it's gone, third party data analysis tools like Link Insight become an even more crucial part of the web marketer's arsenal."
Link building constitutes a critical component of the online marketing formula and as such, AdGooroo continues to make substantial investments in crawling infrastructure and capacity. We expect to formally announce our enterprise-grade backlink explorer later this year.
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Comments (2)
July 13, 2011 5:48 AM
Yes, please. I can't wait to take it for a drive!
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August 1, 2011 4:49 PM
Pure informative content that is original seems to be what search engines are looking for when deciding what sites to index and rank high. Although more links to a website may show authority on a subject, backlink building as a business does not help searchers find the best site for what they are looking for. Search engines just want to keep it honest and may want a a push towards the PPC side as well.
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