{"id":102730,"date":"2011-12-04T19:40:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T11:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seo-hacker.com\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2021-05-11T06:30:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T06:30:01","slug":"great-alternatives-yahoo-site-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seo-hacker.com\/great-alternatives-yahoo-site-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo Site Explorer Alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Yahoo-Site-Explorer\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Yahoo Site Explorer has raised the white flag. Bye, old friend. What now? Well, we look for other alternatives of course! It would be so good if we could get free Yahoo Site Explorer alternatives, since YSE is free. So I looked up some of the free backlink checking<\/a> tools out there and I’ve listed some of them down. But first, a little scrutiny over Bing.<\/p>\n

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Cognitive SEO Link Management Tool – <\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a><\/p>\n

SEMrush<\/a> – \"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a><\/p>\n

Ahrefs – <\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star\"Star\"Star\"Star<\/a><\/p>\n

Quick Backlinks by Link Research Tools – <\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a><\/p>\n

SEO Spyglass by Link Assistant – <\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a><\/p>\n

Monitor Backlinks Tool – <\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a><\/p>\n

Blekko – <\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a><\/p>\n

Exalead – <\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a><\/p>\n

Link Diagnosis – <\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a><\/p>\n

SEO Attack – <\/a>\"Star<\/a><\/p>\n

Open Site Explorer by SEOMoz (FREE VERSION) – <\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a><\/p>\n

BacklinkWatch – <\/a>\"Star<\/a><\/p>\n

Majestic SEO (FREE VERSION) – <\/a>\"Star<\/a>\"Star<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Bing webmaster tools doesn’t help<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because we usually use Yahoo Site Explorer not for our own backlinks but to check out other website’s backlinks – either for analysis, competition backlink trolling<\/a>, backlink quality check, and so on and so forth. Bing webmaster tools only makes this data available to the owners of the website themselves by asking everyone to install a piece of code – verifying if you are the owner of the site.<\/p>\n

I really don’t know why Bing made this move but it’s clearly unwise. The most obvious reason is that they saw the millions of users of YSE everyday and told themselves “Hey, why don’t we get that traffic into using our Bing webmaster tools?” So they shut Yahoo Site Explorer down. Selfish and sucky move.<\/p>\n

It’s especially sucky because I’m using it too! And some of my tools are using it too! Bing has just become a very unattractive brand to me.<\/p>\n

So I started looking elsewhere<\/strong><\/p>\n

Obviously, I didn’t go to Bing webmaster tools as Bing most probably had hoped (and I’m sure plenty other SEOs didn’t go to Bing as well). I started looking for alternatives that will give me the data I used to gather from Yahoo Site Explorer. Here’s the easy breakdown of the alternatives to Yahoo Site Explorer that I found:<\/a><\/p>\n

Cognitive SEO Link Management Tool<\/a><\/h2>\n

\"Cognitive<\/a><\/p>\n

Cognitive SEO is one of the most amazing Link Management tools<\/a> around. It’s features and ease of use balances in an interesting design and user-friendly interface. The best thing I love about Cognitive SEO is its bookmarklet – which lets you easily check a webpage’s backlinks, SEOmoz data, and more – in just a click. Not only that, it doesn’t take too long for you to see all the backlink data.<\/p>\n

More than that, it has a lot of other amazing tools to help you drill-down those backlinks in order for you to use them the way you want – either for linkbuilding, competitor analysis, etc…<\/p>\n

Some of the data it shows you about backlinks:<\/strong><\/p>\n