If you are a webmaster and have missed the fact that Yahoo Site Explorer is no longer available, you should really find something else to do. The tool that allowed us to spy on our competitors is no longer there, so what should a webmaster do now? This is kinda hopeless since it's one of THE tools I used the most - it was fast and free, and they let us see the number of backlinks coming to just about any site on the web. They even let us exclude internal links! But now, the great tool that could help you find out how strong the competitors are in your new niche, is gone.
And what did they give us instead? Bing Webmasters Tools. So typical; Yahoo and Bing takes something great and makes something bad out of it. Gee, thanks a lot.
Ok, enough complaining.
I was surfing around the web for quite some time, trying to find an alternative to Yahoo. Some of "us", that saw this coming, have already set up services that give you the information you want (the same information YSE gave us, and more), but it costs money. I did however manage to find a really good one that won't rob you blind: SEO Attack.It's not quite as fast as Yahoo was, but instead they give you a LOT more information than Yahoo did. This is a screenshot I did when "exploring" a Norwegian newspaper:
They let you see the value of the page related to how many links you have pointing to your site, where the links are coming from, how many outbound links there are on the page, if the site has nofollow links and when the site was saved in the Google cache the last time. Furthermore, you get to see the pagerank for each page, how many of the pages that are bookmarked in Delicious, how many pages that are mentioned on Twitter, how many people on Facebook that likes a given page or site, and a whole lot of other information about the domains and the links pointing there.
I've created an account there myself and it looks promising. I created a free account just to check things out, but the downside with the free account is that you only get to do 10 searches each day, and that's kinda low. I use these kinds of tools a lot when working with my sites, so 10 searches each day is not enough. I'll be getting a Bronze account in a day or two for sure.
The different paid accounts you can get is Bronze, Silver and Gold:
Bronze: Costs $9.97 a month and gives you 50 searches a day. You get to see links pointing to your site, anchor texts to the site, search data for keywords, internal linking and internal anchors, and you can export the data into a CSV file.
Silver: Costs $39.97 a month and gives you 200 searches a day. You get to see all links pointing to your site, anchors to the site, search data for keywords, internal linking and anchors, you can export to CSV, and you get to use their speed queue system.
Gold: Costs $99.97 a month and gives you 500 searches a day. You get everything that you get in the Silver package, only with 300 extra searches a day.
I'll be getting the Bronze package pretty soon, I think, as 50 searches a day would be pretty close to what I usually do. Looking at all the information you get, this service is pretty cheap. Compared to for example Statcounter this is really cheap, because Statcounter doesn't give you anywhere near the same bang for the buck as SEO Attack will give you.
A really good tool for a really good price, imho. For more information about their service, have a look at their site: SEO Attack
A really good tool for a really good price, imho. For more information about their service, have a look at their site: SEO Attack
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