Yahoo Site Explorer shut down in November 2011, leaving a void for those who used it to check competitor backlinks and their own site's backlinks. This document provides 9 alternatives to Yahoo Site Explorer, including Bing Webmaster Tools, BacklinkWatch, Open Site Explorer, Majestic SEO, SEO SpyGlass software, Ahrefs, Blekko, SEOattack, and Exalead. The alternatives vary in features and some only provide limited free functionality before requiring a paid subscription.

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

3. Officially Shut Down!
This is a
sad moment
in internet marketing
history!

4. Usually we use
to spy competitor’s backlinks and
check our own site backlinks.

5. So, here is the list of
alternatives

6. 1. Bing Webmaster Tool
http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster
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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 4. Majestic SEO
http://www.majesticseo.com/reports/site-explorer
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.

10. 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.

11. 6. ahrefs.com
http://www.majesticseo.com/reports/site-explorer
Ahrefs Site Explorer is a pretty decent service.
Its a free tool for your first 10 requests per day without having to sign up.

12. 7. blekko.com
http://www.majesticseo.com/reports/site-explorer
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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. I would be interested in hearing
your thoughts on these
alternatives!

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

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