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Didn't Scrapebox Plan In Advance for the Death of Yahoo Site Explorer?

by The Expert
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I have both SEO Spyglass and Scrapebox. I used to use SEO Spyglass to get info on where other sites are getting backlinks from. Then I switched to Scrapebox because the backlink checker addon combined with the rest of scrapebox meant that I could quickly rip down all the URLs for an entire site, then source all the backlinks for every URL of that site and then quickly check the PR for all the pages which were pointing backlinks at the site.

Now it looks like I'm going to have to go back to SEO Spyglass (and lose a lot of time) because Scrapebox is pulling Zeros with its backlink checker tool.

Didn't they plan in advance for this like Market Samurai, SEO Spyglass, and others?
#advance #death #explorer #plan #scrapebox #site #yahoo
  • Profile picture of the author SEOtraveler
    staying on with seo spyglass - if you are working with large sites/large backlink volumes it helps to break down tasks in seo spyglass - find backlinks first and then analyze them instead of doing two things at once. also captcha breaking service really speeds things up too, esp if you have a large site
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  • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
    Don't mean to bump an old thread, but there's a new backlink checker add-on inside of Scrapebox. I'm not exactly sure where it's pulling its data from. Just started testing it tonight. Guess I'll need to experiment with it more.
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    • Profile picture of the author Melissa82
      Originally Posted by JSProjects View Post

      Just started testing it tonight. Guess I'll need to experiment with it more.
      How did the testing go JS? What do you think compared to YSE?
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      • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
        Originally Posted by Melissa82 View Post

        How did the testing go JS? What do you think compared to YSE?
        Doesn't seem to give as many results. I'm not exactly sure where it's pulling its data. What's odd, though, is that the death of YSE and the backlink checker in Scrapebox was huge news. it was widely considered one of the best features in SB and some people were in a full-on panic.

        But there is hardly ANY discussion about the new backlink checker. I figured it'd be big news. Maybe it's because it's not nearly as good as the old one?
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        • Profile picture of the author packerfan
          Originally Posted by JSProjects View Post

          Doesn't seem to give as many results. I'm not exactly sure where it's pulling its data. What's odd, though, is that the death of YSE and the backlink checker in Scrapebox was huge news. it was widely considered one of the best features in SB and some people were in a full-on panic.

          But there is hardly ANY discussion about the new backlink checker. I figured it'd be big news. Maybe it's because it's not nearly as good as the old one?
          I just did a small test.

          Scrapebox's link checker gave me 8 results
          SEO spyglass - 2965

          Is this the kind of difference other's are seeing as well. I just want to make sure I don't have something configured wrong in scrapebox.
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          • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
            Originally Posted by packerfan View Post

            I just did a small test.

            Scrapebox's link checker gave me 8 results
            SEO spyglass - 2965

            Is this the kind of difference other's are seeing as well. I just want to make sure I don't have something configured wrong in scrapebox.
            No, that seems about right. The new backlink checker seems to be pretty awful at this point.
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  • Profile picture of the author IMdude123
    I haven'y used the scrapebox backlink puller in a while. I am sure it will be updated with the next update.
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    • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
      Originally Posted by IMdude123 View Post

      I haven'y used the scrapebox backlink puller in a while. I am sure it will be updated with the next update.
      It was updated a little over a week ago.
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  • Profile picture of the author robrave
    Yahoo Site Explorer has existed for a long time so it is for certain that Scrapebox didn't really anticipate its shutdown. Though, it is easy to find another source and incorporate it to the software.
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