For both the SEO Analyzer and Link Explorer tools, Bing keeps privacy at the forefront. The update, nicknamed Phoenix, brings what Bing calls a "new, fresh user experience" and some new reports that bear a striking resemblance to the former Yahoo...
Like many in the SEO community, the closing of Yahoo Site Explorer was a difficult pill to swallow. Important note: this is against Google Webmaster Guidelines and, in rare cases, can result in website penalties or bans)
As Yahoo Site Explorer (YSE) rolls in to Bing Webmaster Tools the information will be initially restricted to sites you own - so competitor analysis will be lost this way. With the demise of Yahoo Site Explorer today, SEOs and online marketers will...
Site Explorer data into Webmaster tools. When faced with a laundry list of 400- or 500- errors in Bing Webmaster Tools, a site owner is now empowered with information to help them determine where to start.
In my last column, we looked at three different tools for measuring incoming links: Google Webmaster Tools, Open Site Explorer and Majestic SEO. Once you have your list of competitors, simply plug each of their sites into the link checking tool of...
Last month, Search Engine Watch reported the merger of Microsoft Webmaster Tools and Yahoo Site Explorer. While Bing won’t comment on Yahoo tools, Forrester offers hope for site owners who are looking to start transitioning away from Site Explorer...
There are other link tools, the main two contenders of which are SEOmoz's Open Site Explorer (OSE) and Majestic SEO's Site Explorer. For a long time, the key tool for link analysis was Yahoo's Site Explorer, much valued for its raw unprocessed output.
After all Yahoo sites have migrated to Bing-powered search results, Yahoo site explorer will shut down in favor of Microsoft Webmaster Tools. Yahoo's Site Explorer, the webmaster tool for those looking to optimize for Yahoo, is destined for a...
SEOLink Analysis: Supplements lists of links produced by Google Webmaster Tools and Yahoo Site Explorer with information about each link's PageRank, anchor text, and follow status. Yahoo also offers an API (Yahoo BOSS), which according to many, is...
Majestic SEO Unveils Site Explorer by Brent Rangen Majestic SEO has released its new Site Explorer tool. Unfortunately for Overstock, Webmaster World began examining why they were seeing such great rankings for numerous common terms, a review which...
There are several of these backlink explorer tools available to us at the moment: Yahoo Site Explorer, Open Site Explorer, and now Majestic Site Explorer. Yahoo Site Explorer, the only completely free site explorer tool, has long been teetering on...
Use tools such as Open Site Explorer, Google Webmaster Tools, and Majestic SEO. Google denounces this practice: "Buying or selling links that pass PageRank is in violation of Google's Webmaster Guidelines and can negatively impact a site's ranking...
Majestic-SEO -- Similar to Open Site Explorer, this tool provides comprehensive backlink information on over 2.4 trillion unique URLs (as of Sept 3). Open Site Explorer -- A powerful tool created by the fine folks at SEOmoz.org that measures and...
Massive Link Drops in Yahoo Site Explorer: Yahoo Working With Microsoft To Fix - Search Engine Roundtable Why doesn't the clickthrough data in Webmaster Tools match what I see in Google Analytics? Looking for Input on Crawl Delay - Bing Webmaster...
Only recently, Yahoo discontinued filtering in "linkdomain:domain.com -site:domain.com" (because the Bing engine runs Yahoo results now) and only shows limited data from Yahoo Site Explorer (tip: use non-U.S.
There are plenty of MSN bots featuring an entirely unobtrusive Internet Explorer User Agent -- meaning, of course, that they cannot be determined for the crawlers they are via their User Agent alone: if that's what you're going by (e.g.when...
If you use Yahoo Site Explorer, enter your competitor's URL in the "Explore Domain" field, select "Inlinks," and select "Show Inlinks: Except from this domain," so you can see all of the external incoming links.
What other browsers might not get are the features such as "Index Explorer, a tree-view that enables webmasters to see at a glance all of the crawling and index data for their website. The game is still on and after Google announced its new...
These, like Yahoo Site Explorer, are tools that can be used during discussions to provide a frame around the current Web site or page being discussed. I simply prefer Internet Explorer, and have found a number of tools that I regularly use to...
You can track how many links are coming into your site using Yahoo Site Explorer or Google's Webmaster Tools. So, in your desire to rank for "jay z tickets," you want to ask people to link to your site with the phrase: Jay Z Tickets (or some...
