Yahoo Site Explorer is an oldie but a goodie. It is a tool that has been around for years.
Yahoo Site Explorer is the best free tool on the Internet for finding ALL (or at least as many as possible) backlinks that point to your website… or a competitor’s. It includes the good, bad and the ugly!
Here is a quick 3 minute video to show you how to find all those websites that link to you:
If you are want to learn more about how to analyze a linking website to determine how good the link and listing really is, make sure you watch our All About Google VI: How Link Popularity Works webinar.
Trent, it’s a very detailed yet easy-to-understand video clip. Honestly, I was always wondering, “Why the Yahoo site explorer always have far more backlinks then Google did?”
Wilson,
I think Google just filters that out and chooses not to show as many links because they don’t want to encourage link building (or provide intelligence to link builders. Trent.
Very cool! Being able to derive more information from Yahoo site explorer definitely helps us figure out what works and what doesn’t.