[LINK] RFI: Backtracking Links

[rene]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 02:13:08 +1100, Ash Nallawalla wrote:
> For a free resource, Yahoo Site Explorer is the best.
> http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
> The results page will let you exclude the domain.

Thanks for that info, Ash. Having tried that on the same sub-page that I've 
previously mentioned, it appears to me that Yahoo SE now has some 
potentially serious competition from Blekko. Yahoo SE finds about 100 
backlinks that Blekko does not, but Blekko finds about 100 that Yahoo SE 
does not. (They both find about 50 the same). However, Blekko's results are 
generally much fresher and contain less pages that are basically duplicates 
(from e.g. blog sites with varying URL names e.g. /tag /achive etc). Yahoo 
SE results seem to generally from pages created pre about April 2009, 
whereas Blekko also has more recent. The issue does not appear to be that 
Yahoo hasn't indexed the more recent pages that Blekko finds because 
searching for a number of them in Yahoo shows they are in Yahoo's index.

Hence I wonder if the situation with Yahoo SE hasn't changed/improved much 
since last October:
http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-site-explorer-whats-the-status-of-the-lin
k-data-53551

> Google won't show accurate index counts (site:) or backlinks (link:)
> but if it is a site under your control, then you get a more accurate but 
> not perfect count via Google Webmaster Tools -
> http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Oh, I see - first create a "Google account". (What a surprise, not).

> For more accurate backlinks, see http://www.majesticseo.com based in
> the UK. For a free analysis, you have to place a certain file on your
> server but you can't query other people's backlinks for free.

Thanks, that looks really interesting and does indeed seem likely to 
provide more and up-to-date info (and I have much less of an 'issue' with 
having to first create a login account there).

Irene