As many of you heard, Yahoo Site Explorer is no longer working as of today. We used to rely on it for collecting the number of back links.
So, today we started to gather this information from MajesticSEO. So, don’t be surprised to see a major increase in the number of backlinks. Yahoo Site Explorer wasn’t very reliable lately.
Here is one example of how this looks like on one of the sites we track:
We will work to even improve this data in the future by collecting some of this data internally, so stay tuned.
We also plan to break this information further, so we can show the number of sites linking to you domain and to break this information to follow/no follow links.
As far as I know, Yahoo Site Explorer has been redirect to Bing isn’t it? But I wonder why there are people who knows about SEO things always suggest to submit to Yahoo Site Explorer? Is Yahoo dying or something? I really appreciate your effort to make this statistics. Keep up the good work.
Comment by Dwijayas — December 22, 2011 @ 9:38 am
@Dwijayas: SheerSEO said it on the first line, Yahoo Site Explorer doesn’t work anymore. Everyone used it, because it was free. MajesticSEO isn’t free, but provides a much better quality.
@SheerSEO: Thanks for using MajesticSEO and continue improoving your core functions
Comment by SEO — January 12, 2012 @ 8:48 pm
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Comment by Oralia Balnis — March 15, 2012 @ 3:39 am
Can we expect new features in the near future? It’s a loooooooong time ago, and your service isn’t really cheap..
Comment by Mike — June 20, 2012 @ 1:42 pm
Hi Mike,
You’re correct!
This is because of 2 major and challenging features we are working on.
One is a site explorer, which means we will have information regarding all the links over the web. To understand why this is such a big feature, you need to understand the amount of work this feature requires. We are talking about scanning billions of pages and storing trillions of links. This feature is expected to be live within 1-2 months.
The second big feature, is that we are replacing our interface. The new interface will look better and will be more dynamic and allow faster navigation and work. I hope this will be launched within a week.
Eyal
Comment by admin — June 20, 2012 @ 3:01 pm
Sounds cool with a new interface. I would also be happy to see more links in the “Main referrers”. I know I get new links from time to time, but it rarely shows up in that page. I assume it’s hard to keep track of all pages on the web, and any updates that links to me, but I thought Majestic SEO does that?
As a feature request, I would love to get more info in the email, when a link has been changed. Usually it says “Changes PR 0->3″, but then I have to sign in, and try to find what link has changed. It would be easier if the link was written in the email.
Well, I know you have a lot to do, so keep up the good work!
Looking forward to the new interface and links explorer once it’s done. I love SheerSEO
Comment by Nicky — June 24, 2012 @ 4:03 am