What Are You Using Now Site Explorer is Dead?

by LinkVariety

Posted: 12 years ago 19 replies

Yahoo Site Explorer gasped its last yesterday, so what are you using instead?

Personally Im going with Majestic SEO.

Open Site Explorer is worthless IMO. In fact, I just tested a domain posted in another thread, someone wanting to know where their PR came from. Majestic found 15 links one of which was a PR6 (source of the PR).

Open Site Explorer reports "No Data Available for this URL"... so it cannot even find a monster PR6 link in a timely manner.

I would be very interested to know what others are using, if anything?

It will also be interesting to see what apps that previously used Yahoo data. Majestic have an API, but they do not allow you to re-syndicate the data to non paying customers... as far as I am aware.

#dead #explorer #site

nicktyler 12 years ago

I am using SEO Moz but you have to pay to get full functionality.
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- LinkVariety 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by nicktyler
  
  I am using SEO Moz but you have to pay to get full functionality.
  
  How does the results compare to Majestic?
  
  I was going to get a paid account with them.
  
  The free sign up lets you see the top 5 links, but it does show you how many URLs were fetched, so you could get an idea from the free version of how it stacks up against the Moz tool.
  
  I bet Majestic / Moz have been rubbing their hands together in anticipation of Site Explorer shutting down... guess they can go out and order their super cars now!
  
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Ammy Tisdale 12 years ago

I have been using BacklinkWatch since i heard that it is gonna close.
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- Vikby 12 years ago
  
  I have to agree that majestic crawling database is much more advanced compared to open site explorer - hence the no data problem LinkVariety mentions. the problem with majestic is the money. so a free alternative for backlink checks is blekko and the best one for the price and backlink quality is seo spyglass imo
  
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- Welsh Warrior 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Ammy Tisdale
  
  I have been using BacklinkWatch since i heard that it is gonna close.
  
  Dear God, that is awful. I just tried it on an authority site I have, which includes links from the BBC and a wide number of UK newspapers - premium stuff. And of the 7000+ links I had in yahoo site explorer? Backlinkwatch found 1 - just 1 link.
  
  Steering well clear of that!
  
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krishacetravison 12 years ago

I'm just using backlinkwatch for the mean time..I don't personally use it because it does not give better information about backlinks like Yahoo does.
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Daniel Wilson 12 years ago

Hi!

A backlink checker from http://blekko.com; what SEO plugin for Firefox offers.

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outwest 12 years ago

Majestic is the same database now used by Market Samurai

for those who claim MS backlinks data is weak? why do you say that
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spyroskoun 12 years ago

I use SEO SpyGlass
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MogulManiac 12 years ago

SEO Spyglass
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pwtmike

12 years ago

Originally Posted by LinkVariety

Personally Im going with Majestic SEO.

Open Site Explorer is worthless IMO.

Open Site Explorer reports "No Data Available for this URL"... so it cannot even find a monster PR6 link in a timely manner.

LOL so true. It is worthless!

Majestic SEO it is for me as well. In market samuari, you can turn majestic on Fresh and then it gives you the past 30 days which I've been looking at more now that site explorer is dead... and it does seem to be pretty accurate... more so than seomoz thats for sure.

is it because their data mining strategies are somehow drastically different?

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SuppaDave21

12 years ago

Originally Posted by pwtmike

LOL so true. It is worthless!

I agree, IDK why people weren't using it sooner for software's, I tried the free trial of MS and fell in love with it because of all the info that Majestic SEO gave.

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faceblogger 12 years ago

SEO Spyglass
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prcys Banned 12 years ago

I am used to use the google analytics tool to track my site and to get the report of the backlinks. As with this tool i can know that from which sites, i have get the more backlinks and more benefit.
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Abdul Jabbar 12 years ago

just come here backlinks report - Ahrefs
I am dam Sure that you will definitely like this.

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- JSProjects 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Abdul Jabbar
  
  just come here backlinks report - Ahrefs
  I am dam Sure that you will definitely like this.
  
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  I really like that one. It's a little less known than the others, too.
  
  Majestic has been pretty decent.
  
  If I'm checking things on a massive scale with Scrapebox then I use the "link:" operator in front of all of the URL's I'm checking. (Which is usually 5,000+)
  
  I don't really miss YSE as much as I thought I would since I still get PLENTY of results. And these are indexed links, which is a bonus.
  
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Kris79 12 years ago

Here is my list of software you can use:
- SEO Book plugin for Firefox
- Open Site Explorer from SEOmoz
- Blekko
- Majestic SEO
- ahrefs

But I would use one that show results for all top 10 results, like SEO Quake, much quicker.
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santhakumar 12 years ago

Site Explorer so immensely popular with SEO-optimizers? Well, first, it was free. Second, it offered one of the biggest backlink data sources on the Web. And third, it was very simple to use. So, now, with this one-of-a-kind backlink research tool gone, the game has changed, and there are several things to keep in mind:
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johnnys229 12 years ago

I have had to pay less attention to the exact backlink profiles of competitors and rely more on intuition as to the competition of keywords. Luckily my gut hasn't let me down yet, although it is admittedly sad to see Yahoo site explorer dead. Bing have a new one out now but it has nowhere near the information YSE used to have.
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