[LINK] RFI: Backtracking Links

[Ash Nallawalla]

> From: 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.

I went to a conference where the creators of Blekko and MajesticSEO were
present and both were motivated to address the gaps in the big SEs.
MajesticSEO is clearly aimed at SEOs who need accurate backlink information.
They have been crawling independently and have some 3 TB worth of URLs.

> 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-link
-data-53551

Yahoo has indexed my month-old site capereingatobluff.com just fine. 100% by
the looks of it.  

Ash