Jul 26
Yahoo Site Explorer Down? The Beginng of YaBing
Link Building, Search Engine Optimization Add commentsEstimated reading time: 1 minute, 6 seconds
I have been trying to use Yahoo Site Explorer to search for backlinks all day, and it has not been working. We have known about the pending changes to Yahoo this summer as they are consumed and destroyed integrated with Microsoft’s Bing. This merger was announced nearly exactly 1 year ago as a strategic move by Yahoo and Bing that I am calling YaBing.
The unwritten reasons for the YaBing merger
- The new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz needed to do something to justify her hefty 47mm pay package, so she signed away Yahoo’s future to secure hers.
- Microsoft has been desperate to compete with Google for nearly 10 years, and would give away nearly anything to beat them. Thanks to the unfortunate hiring of Mrs. Bartz, Microsoft got Yahoo’s hard earned online traffic and respect at a very low valuation.
- Google has been dominating the web for the past decade, and the only real way to challenge them is for the second place participants to join forces. Competition is almost always a good thing, and I really look forward to seeing how google responds to some healthy competition.
Below is a random search for links on YSE
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=linkdomain:www.site.com%20-site:www.site.com&n=100
Another great open feature bites the dust; RIP Yahoo Site Explorer.
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July 27th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
very informative blog post about the coming changes to Yahoo. It is so sad to see them the original web directory pioneer into a boring news aggregator.
July 29th, 2010 at 12:00 am
Hello,
Yahoo Site Explorer seems to work just fine today. Let’s hope that yahoo will maintain this great feature.
Best Regards,
Vasilis Vryniotis
August 1st, 2010 at 9:55 pm
Right now Site Explorer is down for maintenance, I hope it will be back online soon.
August 2nd, 2010 at 12:45 pm
Hello, im really excited about trying YSE before Bing finally shuts it down.
August 2nd, 2010 at 2:24 pm
I’m a recent grad just trying to learn more about the SEO business and I didn’t know about the Yahoo site research.
August 2nd, 2010 at 2:29 pm
I’m a student just trying to learn more about the social media space and I really enjoyed reading your article about Yahoo and their link tools.
August 2nd, 2010 at 2:39 pm
thanks for letting us know about the problems with Y site explorer.
August 2nd, 2010 at 7:00 pm
@bbriniotis Yes, YSE seems to be back up, but with Bing taking over the search algorithm, there is no guarantee this link tool will remain available.
August 3rd, 2010 at 11:33 am
I just love your Yahoo write-ups!
Yabing is hilarious.
August 5th, 2010 at 2:01 am
It’s quite annoying this issue. When siteexplorer is down I usually use other software, however quite limited ones..
Now is up though…
August 12th, 2010 at 9:30 am
Well this is kind of alarming, im gonna keep myself posted about Yahoo so i’ll be aware of future developments. Thanks for letting us know!
August 18th, 2010 at 8:32 am
look like is down again, any one have any news about it ?
August 19th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Its down for me as well. I sure hope it comes back online. I really dont want to pay for link information
August 24th, 2010 at 2:11 am
im really excited about trying YSE before Bing finally shuts it down.
August 26th, 2010 at 12:51 am
If its always down than its good because competitors can’t see your links.
October 4th, 2010 at 2:48 am
Nice post. Thanks for giving me updated information on Yahoo site explorer.
October 17th, 2010 at 12:20 am
Nowadays yahoo site explorer is online. I like to link analysis
October 21st, 2010 at 9:39 am
Today i noticed yahoo backlink checker was not working, all links gone from many websites, anyone any idea whats going on? another update or what?
January 27th, 2011 at 11:47 am
Yahoo Site Explorer seems to work just fine today. Let’s hope that yahoo will maintain this great link analysis feature.
May 20th, 2011 at 12:51 am
Great, now we will never get to use the best part of yahoo search.
June 23rd, 2011 at 7:28 am
Yahoo site explorer is still important for asia SEO where yahoo JP and yahoo cn and HK still use yahoo search as their primary engine (thus no bing integration yet) !
July 14th, 2011 at 5:50 am
i stumbled on an individual’s yahoo review and have been trying to decide if Yahoo SEO is worth it.