Yahoo Site Explorer replacement?

Now that Yahoo Site Explorer how do you guys check your backlinks? How do you check your competition? since they merged with Bing I have a hole in my SEO system hehe.

 

You can check through Google, For your websites you can check it through webmaster. Currently i am using alexa and bing to check back links.

Any other tools please suggest me.

 

I heard people talk about opensiteexplorer but the link is dead here

 

opensiteexplorer.org

but it is far away from yahoo site explorer

 

Using the google Webmaster Tools and also signed up for the Bing webmaster tools to provide additional data but till now the information are not very helpfull

 

I heard somewhere that as of now there is no such tool that can give you the results as close as Yahoo SE did in the past. Waiting too for a good tool/reply...

 

Backlinkwatch is another option although it not as good as yahoo site explorer

 

just checked backlinkwatch and it seems like they have no data for plenty domains since yahoo site explorer was closed

 

yahoo site explorer is now close due to merging of yahoo search algorithm with MSN/BING, I also use backlink watch and seocentro to check my links.

 

I mostly use scrapebox to check my backlinks. Just tried opensiteexplorer but indeed only a few dozen links showed up.

 

Yes it is very sad news for all SEOs that yahoo site explorer closed now but i think there are a lot of backlink checker tools (free) on the web for example i use watchbacklinks dot com it is also very good, free and reliable backlink checker.

 

I'm sad too that siteexplorer is gone.
Two alternatives:

majesticseo.com
Baidu Spider (Seo Quake Toolbar)

 

check the back links of your sites

 

Here are some of the backlink tools I use and like:

OpenSiteExplorer.org
Blekko.com (search "domain" /seo) or (search "domain" /inbound)
MajesticSEO.com

Spydermate.com (I haven't used this one yet but I saw a demo at Pubcon and it pulls in everyones data...looks good).

Also, like everyone else mentioned, if your looking at your own backlinks and not a competitors, your Google webmaster central should report a good amount of your backlinks.

 

I would say majesticseo as the best alternative to Y! They have over 1 Trillion urls crawled and their index size is the closest to Google.

 

Usually , I check it with Yahoo . It is exacter than Google .

 

There is no such replace of yahoo site explorer. Every data that we see as backlinks are crawled by search engine spiders. The most giant spiders that's capable enough to crawl almost every backlinks of yours belongs to Google and Yahoo (now at bing). Other search engines or meta search engines even get datas from these major search engines and display it over their search result page.

So guys make this very clear that if these giants doesn't provide any option for users or developers then, no other tool or search engine can afford to present such a huge volume of data.

Thus the days of watching backlinks of other websites are gone and that's the reality.

 

BacklinksWatch is the best platform to use because almost the same backlinks it shows like Yahoo.

 

it is all about Blekko my friends or spyglass if you want to pay up and can wait for data to populate

 

I have been looking into it myself. So far, OSE seems the best choice. Those who can afford it could of course go for SEOMoz or SEC ockpit, but those are really expensive options...