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Yahoo Site Explorer API closing?! What does this mean?

by markowe
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See the news on the Yahoo Developer blog:

Important API Updates and Changes · YDN Blog

Especially the section about Site Explorer API being closed down!

MANY of the tools we use - Market Samurai, various browser toolbars etc. - use Site Explorer heavily for their information. Especially, SE is the most reliable way to see incoming backlinks, vital for niche research.

What's not clear from the article is whether there will be some service to replace it, in cooperation with Bing. Hopefully something even bigger and better will come along, but the news is a little worrying...
#api #closing #explorer #site #yahoo
  • Profile picture of the author GoTop
    I have the same question too.

    Does anyone have the solution?
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  • Profile picture of the author Derek S
    they have been talking about closing it for well over a year now. SEOmoz's Open Site Explorer is the next best place for this type of info when yahoo pulls the plug.
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    • Profile picture of the author GardeniaShrub
      Open site explorer for partial information on backlinks (or you can pay for the full service). Also Majestic SEO do a paid service. And SEO Spyglass do a paid service.

      If you can't afford to pay, then people will probably remain in the dark about their competitors backlinks. Which is what Bing and Google want, ultimately.
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  • Profile picture of the author AlexSafie
    The free account in majesticseo.com gives you good information
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    • Profile picture of the author RightGood10
      Originally Posted by AlexSafie View Post

      The free account in majesticseo.com gives you good information
      Eeer wrong! it only gives you good info on your own site with a free account, its absolutely ****e for anything else is the free account, unless you know something I don't?
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      • Profile picture of the author Derek S
        Originally Posted by RightGood10 View Post

        its absolutely ****e
        For the life of me I cannot figure out what five letter word ending in "e" is so bad you had to star it out, this one will bug me so could ya please PM me the word LOL

        my main issue is what will all the current software do when yahoo site explorer is no more? use Google give us way less than 1000 links? Most software out today scrapes Yahoo to report backlinks.
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        • Profile picture of the author MrWonton
          Originally Posted by Derek S View Post

          For the life of me I cannot figure out what five letter word ending in "e" is so bad you had to star it out, this one will bug me so could ya please PM me the word LOL

          my main issue is what will all the current software do when yahoo site explorer is no more? use Google give us way less than 1000 links? Most software out today scrapes Yahoo to report backlinks.
          Shyte with an I. Scottish/Irish/English . Word filter would've picked up the first 4 letters.
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          • Profile picture of the author DamenRabat
            Shutting down the yahoo site explorer has been in the making for a while now. Gonna miss the old lady.
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            • Profile picture of the author Jeremy Banks
              I am sure there will be a lot of products launched just in time

              Backlinkwatch is a free one that is pretty good.
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              • Profile picture of the author Zoe_21
                Hi there fellow Warriors

                As another alternative to Yahoo's site explorer, are you aware of ahrefs.com website? (Not to be confused with ahref.com) They're at beta stage at present.

                They use their own bot web crawler and say they have the largest database of LIVE backlinks with data being available in real time after a short delay. This means in 5 to 10 minutes after their bot visits a page, all new data is available for analysis. Another USP is that it can display anchor texts backlinks totals. A user reported that after running it on one of his sites, he discovered that the number one anchor text was 'link to us' which was not his main keyword target.

                Their price range is from FREE (5 to 15 requests a day) to (500 requests a day) for $99 per month

                Must say that after looking around their site and reading their FAQ page, I've decided to give them a trial as they look to be on the button and a good contender

                Zoe
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                • Profile picture of the author lerxtjr
                  Nice Find, Zoe! ahrefs.com rocks!
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