Yahoo Site Explorer Alternatives

Although (please note), I don’t say that it was totally useless. Any additional information that we can get about our sites or our competition helps. However, considering that this tool had not been in active development for quite some time, I doubt that it reflected much of what has been recently happening with Yahoo. Therefore it is hard to say how valid the data that we were getting from it was. 

For Those Who Don’t Have a Clue: What Was Site Explorer?

Since Site Explorer was quite a primitive tool if compared to, let’s say Google Webmaster Tools, it didn’t give us any real value on its own. A few of the valuable things that we could pick up from it were

1. seeing the number of pages indexed by Yahoo

and

2. the number of inbound links from external sources leading to single pages or the whole site.

For Those Who Wonder: Should We Miss It?

Since we still can get an idea about how many pages are presently indexed by Yahoo for a given domain (if we query its search with

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