Here Is The Next BEST Thing That Replaces Yahoo Site Explorer!

[Gdetonator]

For the past 7 days since Yahoo Site Explorer was shut down, I've been pissed and going back and forth with a lot of tools both online tools and software applications trying to find something that would even give me a close definition of YSE but up until now, I didn't find any.

I first ran to SEO Spyglass and downloaded their latest version after reading their press release here claiming that though Yahoo Site Explorer is shut down that they won't be affected but honestly, that was a big lie.

I mean I had big hopes for these guys but they literally disappointed me, the results they were showing me was utterly weird and I just knew they were wrong so I decided to some sample tests...

I loaded one of my websites with over 1,500 backlinks and it returned only 34 backlinks then I decided to try on my other site with around 200 backlinks but SEO Spyglass returned only 40 backlinks, the whole thing was a big mess up.

It was a big mess and if I took such result to a competition, I was guaranteed to fail as SEO Spyglass now depend on the Blekko API and if you know what you are doing, you already know that Blekko is everything but good for researching backlink profiles */it's a waste of time/*

So, I continued my search to find a good tool and I've tested out so many tools out there, in the last 5 days, I've spent over $300 paying premium monthly charges to find any tool that will give me good results (good thing, I'm about to cancel all of them).

At first, OpenSiteExplore.org costing $99 a month was looking good but when I start using it deep, there were a lot of shortcomings on the features, it couldn't just meet up the required results.

I checked on many others, trust me... I already checked that one you want to recommend right now.

Till now, I read this post "The First REAL Free Alternative to Yahoo Site Explorer" and I got introduced SEO Attack | Free, Easy and Simple Backlink Analysis and so far, it's the best stuff that I've seen and from my personal opinion, it's far better than Yahoo Site Explorer combined with any other site explorer.

I'm nothing short of amazed by the features and their very friendly user interface, I highly recommend you check them out if you are looking for something better than Yahoo Site Explorer or any other site explorer tools you may be using now.

I hope you like it...

Cheers

[JSProjects]

Looks pretty decent.

Though what I miss most about YSE was the ability to plug literally thousands of pages into Scrapebox and grab all of the backlinks at once. (Was also great for analyzing the competition of page 1 for your keywords.)

[Gdetonator]

Originally Posted by JSProjects

Looks pretty decent.

Though what I miss most about YSE was the ability to plug literally thousands of pages into Scrapebox and grab all of the backlinks at once. (Was also great for analyzing the competition of page 1 for your keywords.)

Yea, most people missed that one too but now that things are shaken up, I'm pretty sure they will start working together to come up with some kind of integration for the new site explorers.

I hope SEO Spyglass catches the cold soon or I will rid them of the 50MB space they occupy on my hard disk

[BarryOnline]

Seoattach.org doesn't show any back links pointing to my site when there's quite a number.

I've also been looking for a good new alternative to yahoo site explorer.

At the moment I'm using - Ahrefs - Backlinks & SERPs Research Tool which seems to be good.

[stevenalowe]

excellent resource, thank you!

I always disliked yahoo explorer (and the scary firefox toolbars) anyway; the interface and explanations of this are much better

[Gdetonator]

Originally Posted by BarryOnline

Seoattach.org doesn't show any back links pointing to my site when there's quite a number.

I've also been looking for a good new alternative to yahoo site explorer.

At the moment I'm using - Ahrefs - Backlinks & SERPs Research Tool which seems to be good.

How many backlinks are we talking about here lad cos I just checked and the tool is functioning well on my site that has more than 8,000 backlinks (it's showing them all) though it took time to load but my internet is a bit slow now so 'm not surprised.

Maybe you are having some kind of internet speed trouble and it's SEOAttack.org

Originally Posted by stevenalowe

excellent resource, thank you!

I always disliked yahoo explorer (and the scary firefox toolbars) anyway; the interface and explanations of this are much better

ha ha, I liked the combination of Yahoo Site Explorer, SEOQuake and SEO Spyglass but I guess, now... that combination will be no more.

SEO Attack seems to be all in one for me now.

[Chris Ditfort]

Man, my SEOQuake don't work no more, It's annoying!

Thanks for this hopefully it can help in one way or another

Chris.D

[Bruce99]

you know, for a manual linking guy with not too many sites to analyse seoattack seems ideal.

Cant believe the arrogance of MSN in closing the yahoo service down like no one was using it. Guess thats what followers do? Anyway, thanks for the great heads up, now its just a matter of learning how to use the filters and record the data that will take a little time.

[RevSEO]

So is SEOAttack scraping the web or utilizing LinkScape, as noted at the bottom of their website?

If its the latter, how is it any better than any of the other resources? I know that sounds critical but...

Unfortunately I just tried using it, and before I actually figured out how to use it I exhausted my free lookups.

Not so user friendly, although I may end up taking a look at it tomorrow when I get my free limits removed again.

[BravoOne]

SEO attack is great!

[braincandy7]

Thanks! I was searching and trying out other services yesterday but they all came up crap. Will give this a go! Cheers

[SEOtraveler]

Please explain the info as seen on here: SEO Attack | Free, Easy and Simple Backlink Analysis

500 searches / day + 200 link depth

Does that mean that for $99.97.mo I get 10,000 links? if so how are you a better deal than linkscape from which the data seems to be pulled?

[Gdetonator]

Originally Posted by Chris Ditfort

Man, my SEOQuake don't work no more, It's annoying!

Thanks for this hopefully it can help in one way or another

Chris.D

I'm sure it will, tell me how it goes when you try it out

Originally Posted by Bruce99

you know, for a manual linking guy with not too many sites to analyse seoattack seems ideal.

Cant believe the arrogance of MSN in closing the yahoo service down like no one was using it. Guess thats what followers do? Anyway, thanks for the great heads up, now its just a matter of learning how to use the filters and record the data that will take a little time.

MSN sucks, I can even stand them

Originally Posted by braincandy7

Thanks! I was searching and trying out other services yesterday but they all came up crap. Will give this a go! Cheers

You are welcome, I hope it helps you a great deal...

[Fraggler]

Originally Posted by RevSEO

Not so user friendly, although I may end up taking a look at it tomorrow when I get my free limits removed again.

Not user friendly? It can't get much simpler. It does a great job of presenting the Linkscape data!

[RevSEO]

Originally Posted by Fraggler

Not user friendly? It can't get much simpler. It does a great job of presenting the Linkscape data!

Considering I accidently used up my free credits trying to figure it out, its not user friendly.

Like I said, I'll re-evaulate it but if its nothing more than reproducing Linkscape's data I'm not really sure the point.

[outwest]

Thanks but it sounds like an expensive monthly subscription

[Fraggler]

Originally Posted by RevSEO

Considering I accidently used up my free credits trying to figure it out, its not user friendly.

Like I said, I'll re-evaulate it but if its nothing more than reproducing Linkscape's data I'm not really sure the point.

It shows more data than the free version of Open Site Explorer and I believe presents it in a user friendly interface. It is cheaper than upgrading your SEOMoz account ($99/month).

It's naturally pointless if you don't trust SEOMoz's data and proprietry metrics.

I believe that SEOMoz and Majestic SEO are the main players in crawling their own backlinks (but I haven't had a long enough look at Blekko yet). A tool that makes using either of their databases easy is a winner for me.

[seoed]

I just discovered this site: https://www.majesticseo.com

Seems to work pretty well.

[Dmreed4311]

so it says its free but it really isnt free, thats a first!!!!!

[MemberWing]

It shows less than 1/10-th of all existing (as reported by Google webmasters tools) backlinks for me. Same as other tools.
No go.

[outwest]

Originally Posted by seoed

I just discovered this site: https://www.majesticseo.com

Seems to work pretty well.

I dont think that shows anchor text
or
PR of backlinks

otherwise they would be showing in Market Samurai (who uses Majestic SEO)
and they are not showing in Market Samurai

[ezzypro]

Yes yes yes!

A free tool that actually does a decent job of finding backlinks!

Thank you so much!

[boxoun]

So you are basing value of tool with amount of links they return?

Imo that is not optimal strategy. If that was the case then go with majesticseo.

The most important thing is to familiarize yourself with the info a certain tool brings back and analyze with serp movements.

Some tools/service report to only show backlinks that carry juice.

If that's the case, then number of backlinks don't matter.

Pick one you like. Understand what the number means. Test test test.

[satrap]

Originally Posted by Dmreed4311

so it says its free but it really isnt free, thats a first!!!!!

Exactly!

This one is even worst. It even shows you an option to register for free o you can see more data, but when you actually try to register, it only gives you paid options. There is no page fore registering for free.

[Fraggler]

There is a link at the bottom of the popup to say "No Thanks, I'll Stick With the Free Account".

[Gdetonator]

Originally Posted by Fraggler

Not user friendly? It can't get much simpler. It does a great job of presenting the Linkscape data!

I second this...

Originally Posted by RevSEO

Considering I accidently used up my free credits trying to figure it out, its not user friendly.

Like I said, I'll re-evaulate it but if its nothing more than reproducing Linkscape's data I'm not really sure the point.

They do have a free registration that allows up to 10 queries daily and their basic plan of $10 monthly which is way too cheap compared to others.

Originally Posted by outwest

Thanks but it sounds like an expensive monthly subscription

Then you would definitely want OpenSiteExplorer.org off the internet for good for their pricing, right?

Originally Posted by Fraggler

It shows more data than the free version of Open Site Explorer and I believe presents it in a user friendly interface. It is cheaper than upgrading your SEOMoz account ($99/month).

It's naturally pointless if you don't trust SEOMoz's data and proprietry metrics.

I believe that SEOMoz and Majestic SEO are the main players in crawling their own backlinks (but I haven't had a long enough look at Blekko yet). A tool that makes using either of their databases easy is a winner for me.

Simple comment "Blekko SUCKS!"

Originally Posted by seoed

I just discovered this site: https://www.majesticseo.com

Seems to work pretty well.

Yea nice stuff but I prefer SEOAttack.org

Originally Posted by Dmreed4311

so it says its free but it really isnt free, thats a first!!!!!

What is really free on this earth? What we all get is free trials

Originally Posted by MemberWing

It shows less than 1/10-th of all existing (as reported by Google webmasters tools) backlinks for me. Same as other tools.
No go.

I wouldn't trust Google webmasters tools to count my backlinks for me, but you could try Ahrefs.com to see if it will help you.

Originally Posted by satrap

Exactly!

This one is even worst. It even shows you an option to register for free o you can see more data, but when you actually try to register, it only gives you paid options. There is no page fore registering for free.

Are you kidding me?

Originally Posted by Fraggler

There is a link at the bottom of the popup to say "No Thanks, I'll Stick With the Free Account".

Most of them are always scared away by payments so they don't even bother looking wall, they close the page the second they see $$$

[linkbuildr]

OSE and MajesticSEO.com is way better than that tool....

[Kris79]

ahrefs seems to be good alternatives, because it shows not only number of backlinks but also number of differnet C-class IP address that are linking to.
Disadvantage: you must do research for each individual site separetelly.
I don't know if there is any tool that will pull out results from ahrefs for whole SERP.

[John Williamson]

How can I get backlink and anchor text data for a subpage of a website rather than just a top level domain? This tool doesn't seem to work for that.

[outwest]

There is NOTHING that beats ahrefs
that is ALSO FREE
http://ahrefs.com/
ahrefs is awesome free tool , blows away SEO Majestic free tool

however I cant seem to get ahrefs to work today

[Jim Brady]

great info in this thread nice replacements to yahoos site explorer

[Osman_M]

How accurate is the data though compared to yahoo site explorer?

[Fraggler]

That's a good point, Osman. When I get some time I plan on running a few comparisons to see which ones contain the most up to data database of live links. Aesthetics and functionality are important but it's all useless if the links are out of date.

[MemberWing]

Originally Posted by Osman_M

How accurate is the data though compared to yahoo site explorer?

Horrible-to-useless. Site explorer was the closest to Google webmaster tools. All these services are missing the mark by the mile - like reporting 1/10 of backlinks that actually exists.
I just signed for Bing webmasters tool and it's in useless-to-defunc state even for sites I own. Which leaves me with only option to use only Google webmasters tools for my own stuff, and leave competition alone :-/

Gleb

[Fraggler]

Gleb, Yahoo Site Explorer was popular but it wasn't accurate. It seemed like it took forever to remove dead links. GWT does show a lot more links these days but it's usless for competition analysis.

[MemberWing]

Originally Posted by Fraggler

Gleb, Yahoo Site Explorer was popular but it wasn't accurate. It seemed like it took forever to remove dead links. GWT does show a lot more links these days but it's usless for competition analysis.

YSE was the closest to Google info. In my experience it was updated pretty often (at least for my sites). But in our world nothing is perfect i guess

Gleb

[Cash37]

great tool. Learned that I have a site in DMOZ through this!

[tylerjaysen]

Originally Posted by Chris Ditfort

Man, my SEOQuake don't work no more, It's annoying!

Thanks for this hopefully it can help in one way or another

Chris.D

yeah my SEOquake no worky either...ugh. I noticed that the yahoo explorer link now takes you to the Bing webmaster tools and what a joke that is.

Is the paid version our only option here? I'm sure that a free version will come along shortly.

[Rsberg]

New alternative...

Site Explorer Pro

[Beardo]

Every FREE site I have tried has restricted number of back link results or it lists all back links but doesn't show anchor text, page rank etc.

I guess there is no such thing as a free lunch when it comes to backlink tools.