ALTERNATIVES

To Check Backlinks

As most of you are probably aware by now, Yahoo Site Explorer officially shut down on November 21st, 2011.

This is a

sad momentin internet marketing

history!

Officially Shut Down!

Usually we use to spy competitor’s backlinks and

check our own site backlinks.

alternatives

So, here is the list of

1. Bing Webmaster Tool

Yahoo Site Explorer essentially moved everything to Bing Webmaster Tools. However, the only issue is that you can only get link data for the sites that you own now.

http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster

2. BacklinkWatch.com

BacklinkWatch.com greatly helps you to know every bit about your inbound links.It includes anchor text, pagerank, quality of backlinks by finding total outbound links.

3. Open Site Explorer by SEOmoz.org

OpenSiteExplorer.org is an excellent alternative to Yahoo Site Explorer,because its free and it provides link data for any URL you want to check.

4. Majestic SEO

Majestic SEO gives some basic data for free, but has one of the largest index of links out there, and has some very in depth analysis tools if you are willing to pay for them.

http://www.majesticseo.com/reports/site-explorer

5. SEO SpyGlass Software

SEO Spyglass is one such program and so far, it looks

really good.

The software basically works to analyze a website and show

you, in great detail, where they are getting their backlinks from.

6. ahrefs.com

Ahrefs Site Explorer is a pretty decent service.Its a free tool for your first 10 requests per day without having to sign up.

http://www.majesticseo.com/reports/site-explorer

7. blekko.com

Blekko will definitely rise in popularity. A lot of search engines already knew the shutdown of YSE and yet only Blekko stood up to try and eat up the market that YSE

has, in the aspect of its free and quick backlink-spying capabilities.

http://www.majesticseo.com/reports/site-explorer

8. SEOattack.org

At SEOAttack.org you can research your competition in a quick and simple manner.But sometimes they never update the script, so sometimes they show wrong value

when I start explore our backlinks there.

9. Exalead.com/search/

Exalead looks like a promising tool in replacement of Yahoo Site Explorer.It’s not really a popular tool/search engine – which is quite shocking because it

gives out good backlink data.You have to type in link:your-domain-name.com in order to get the list of backlinks of that site.

alternatives!

I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on these

Did I miss a good alternative? What insights do you have to share on this subject?

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