Site Explorer Reminder

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I’ll miss site explorer. *sighs*

Why are you getting rid of this tool? Bing Webmaster Tools is not equivalent at all. Where are we supposed to go to “explore” other sites?

Well, this is a good news.

There ‘used’ to be useful data in YSE… not sure merging with BWMT will provide anything new or more useful…

we’ll miss you.

good news? sure, if you’re one of the few who can afford a subscrption to the rediculously over priced alternative. Anyone who sincerely believes this is good news clearly needs their head examined… Its a dark day indeed, for both SEO Consultants and the developers of many SEO research tools.

Disagreeable

Good news. Thanks.

Site Explorer – R.I.P – You will be missed.

Oh no, why?

This is pretty sad. :-(

There is a chance you will be the only commenter here with that oppinion. :)

this is really a bad news for traffic tracking. Yahoo webmaster tools is more preferable then the bing webmaster tool. i am gonna miss you .

i am surely gonna miss it.

bing,,sigh,,not good as yahoo,,will miss you

bing webmaster: inbound links under Index tab ???

i am so sorry

no

@Scott,
To explore backlinks to other sites, you’ll have to turn to paid alternatives like sitexploration.com, seomoz.org or majesticseo.com.

Ohh My God!!

Sure this was coming, and we all knew it would happen, but I will surely miss Site Explorer. Since the Yahoo API was gone it wasn’t quite as useful but still…

No, This is a bad news for me.

Bye bye! We all ow ya a debt of gratitude!

I am now, I logged on to look at Bing

wow! Good decision!:)

I think that’s the best solution guys! Good job!:)

This is really sad news.I use yahoo site explore every day to spy for backlinks and now i have to find some other alternative.Bing is good but it is not as good as yahoo site explore.

To be honest, I’m gonna miss siteexplorer. But yeah, we can always evolve to something better. Good solution. Good luck!:)

No, this is bad

Nice, less newbies SEOs will be able to follow competitors backlinks:D

really it may b good for new users.

Well.. We have to work with bing now ?

Another suggestion ?

Is Bing really reliable ?
Will it be totally free as YSE until now ?

because MajesticSeo and others are so expensive !!
Any suggestions ?

Bernard
Ndx.fr <— expired domain names with backlinks ;-)

It was good while lasted. I salute you YSE…

ok do it

don’t do that yahoo….
make it a paid tool

please

I am almost a daily user of yahoo explorer, its indeed a sad new for me and a hard decision to take in order to change the medium.. Is there anyway that the yahoo take decision back of closing off the yahoo explorer?

it is a pity

Thanks! That’s a good news.

Wow, Yahoo did a good thing with Bing Search

Sorry to see this tool go after all these years! Its been a great resource and hopefully the version in Bing can cut it.

Best regards

Andrew Wheeler

Miss this tool very much!

Ohh no It must be. Compulsory we need the web masters tool

We miss you “Site Explorer” !!! :)

RIP Site Explorer

I’ll miss Site Explorer,too

I always loved site explorer for it’s accurate data. Too bad we lost it :-(

Well, that sucks. Will the index from this be transferred to a public implementation of this on Bing?

A Big Shock for all SEOs. I am one of the guy who uses mostly the site explorer. It helps me a lot always to check competitor linking strengths. Time to check for paid tools :(

Why is this necessary????

Couldn’t agree more Melanie! I don’t know what my tool bar will be used for without it

I can’t believe! Now, how can we check any site’s backlink. Bing isn’t generous like yahoo, would they get payment from us for checking backlink?

So sad……

With the closure of Site Explorer, are there any plans to offer competitive data in Bing Webmaster Tools, such as pages and links, similar to Site Explorer?

I personally think its a good news for both Yahoo and Bing !

But I really miss Yahoo Site Explorer ! because I think it was the great tool provided by Yahoo..Now believing Bing will continue this service..

Good Luck Yahoo…

So long and thanks for all the links. It has been much apreciated all these years. Shame to see you go.

@Scott there are many similar tools available, but sadly the best ones are paid for.

I’ll miss this tool… I thought it’s pretty useful. I’m not sure why Bing has to take over and not the other way around.

It is a sad day indeed. A few people have commented that the alternatives are overpriced, but I would disagree. Domain-Pop.com is completely free.

Nooo! :’(

Was using Explorer almost everyday. IMO, not good decision :(

This is a forced upgrade. But I had already transferred all of its sites in Bing Webmaster, was easy to move. New funktsianal parodoval new impression of the company and a good greeting. Thank you!

that bad news, look for alternatives

This sucks :O( i will miss yahoo site explorer!

It was fun while it lasted.

Bummer!

It was my favourite backlink watcher ;) R.I.P.

The only reason I actually used Yahoo! anymore.

So sad…

Yahoo Site Explorer will be missed by many!

RIP Yahoo site explorer.. I’ll miss u.. :(

What! Yahoo! Site Explorer is too important for all webmasters!! that’s sad news, BWT doesn’t compare with it….

its not good, we are going to miss u, u must come back with more good features,

1 Great source gone…Now we can count on Majestic SEO…

oh no
It is shame do hear that
I like yahoo Site Explorer

It is a shame to see such a valuable tool disappear.

Not good PR or branding psychology for Yahoo to effectively remove a highly valued, most useful tool for us webmasters. Not a forward step… solly.

Nooooo! This tool was so useful. Why was this stopped?

Can somebody tell me about if the links for my site will still stay or will they be deleted, too, then?

Oh no! I loved YSE, so much data, so accesible… Let’s hope bing opens up their API like Yahoo did …..

Yahoo site explorer is a very good tool to track back link of website. But this is running today also…

Why?? Why?? Whyyyyy?? I am going to miss you :’(

Yahoo Site Explorer is still working ;)

So many of your freaking spammers that only care about getting your site’s link on this page upset the rest of us who actually know how important Site Explorer is to the webmaster community. It is a very dear loss to many webmasters who have relied upon its information for sooo long. It is truly a significant loss for the web master community…

first the keyword tool. now the site explorer. why can’t it just stay? Site Explorer has been a very great tool for webmasters.

Too Bad ! For the SEO workers it was a great tool :) Hope that Bing Webmaster Tool will continue to give the same data quality ^^

I heard this was going to happen, and now is the time. What a pity. So many other tools and sites providing information based on this data, will also become useless with YSE closing. Many thanks for providing it for all these years for free. – Pity its all about the money, but unfortunately its only by the competitors closing YSE off that SEO’s will be driven to using paid-for resources, which is yet another nail in the coffin for small sites which cannot afford to pay, and their positions in SERPs may suffer as a consequence. Backlink knowledge is only a part of the whole SEO equation, but its a very useful part.

RIP Siteexplorer :(
We will miss you!

Still not sure why Yahoo made such decision. Hopefully Bing will have similar features.

A black day indeed!
I hope bing will pick this great tool up.

Tx for all the info, yahoo.

R.I.P :(

Adios and thank you!

Sad to see you go! Thanks!

Yes for the majority of us it’s bad news, but times change and so we have to change with them. Always look on the bright side of things :) you never know something good might come out of this!

oh nooooooooooooo!

Thats not good…

Sorry to hear that i allways use that to see if my backlinks have been found.

I hope Bing does as good a job, otherwise it’s a shame and a big loss.

how do i find site explorer in bing?

why use tools.
how to check backlinks

Why is this necessary??

hmm, that’s said to here and to see that all the nice statistics are not accessible without registration anymore – well, I think we will have to sign up for Bing Webmaster Tools ;-)

It’s a shame that the side Explorer has changed, he has done me more good services and for that I thank you. you’re really missing me.

It’s call adaptation people…that’s what any industry is about…there r a lot of people who need cheese with that WHINE!

Good News

Thanks Yahoo!

I still don’t understand the logic. The Site Explorer tool has much more to offer than the webmaster tools.

I’m a sad panda.

Webmasters lost a lot today.

I thought as a challenger you (Bing+Yahoo) would give more transparency to webmasters…
Strange strategy.

why oh why…sites explorer ill be missing u

SiteExplorer, Mother where are your today. >>> like song. Ihik… ihik… I will to miss you.

Oh my god .. so sad :(

Thats a shame.

It’s really a big shock for me.so inconvenient…

I was wondering why backlinks weren’t showing up anymore :(

Anyway, hopefully there will be something similar with Bing…

Yahoo Site Explorer is a great tool for me.I will miss it for a very long time.

I can’t believe this!
WHO will actually take the time off to sign up a live-account, log in, add verification codes to sites and use BWMT, when Google does it much much better!?

AND …the Open Site Explorer (MOZ) is free/easy to use.

YOU just made the biggest mistake Yahoo!

Why ?
Site Explorer was quite popular and contribute positively to yahoo brand !

I don’t understand how could yahoo agreed to this ?

The worst thing is there won’t be any step back :(

Thanks for all the good years… a bit scared to move over to bing, always trusted on yahoo site explorer. I knew it was going to happen, but never imagined I would be so sad to see it go…

Yahoo site explorer was great!!! Will Bing be as good or even close?

NO!!! Why??? We love YSE!!!

Tanks Site Explorer, we’ll miss you.
To see Bing Webmaster Tools

so sad :’( but Good Luck Yahoo

I don’t know what my tool bar will be used for without it. It seems to be a good learning,

So long and thanks for all the links. It has been much apreciated all these years. Shame to see you go

why，now where can we check our site links

how i can find backlink of my competitor if Yahoo sitexplorer is shutdown? i cant find any clue from my bing webmaster

Ohh My God!!

Good Luck Yahoo…

what a pity!

Nice move

Good luck Yahoo, beat Google for me!

Goooooooooooooooooooooooood!

What?!? This was such a great resource. Why on earth would you get rid of something that works so well?

OMG！What can we do as a seoer? And thx for yahoo service!

Really i miss you Siteexplorer

I really miss Yahoo Site Explorer ! because I think it was the great tool provided by Yahoo..Now believing Bing will continue this service..

How can we recover from this great loss, there is no replacement, I just hope you`ll listen to the mails asking you to get it back.

Sad, sad….

my website deindexed on bing

This is a sudden overnight conclusion. My concern is that Bing will not be as good as Yahoo Site Explorer and I think many of the comments share this concern.

My seo toolbar is now out of date and no longer serving up the backlink checker that I so relied upon for these years. What’s next?

To anyone reading these comments maybe Open Site Explorer could be the next step to use unless Bing provides an excellent service.
It is a waiting game for now and hopefully it will all work out for the better.

Oh no, why?

It was expected and still such a let down. Now most people will spend tons of money on third-party products which might have been the ultimate goal in the end. And still no other solution is able to offer such a comprehensive backlink analysis.

Site Explorer – R.I.P

:-( :-(

It ain’t the end of the world folks. Only a temporary setback. Something will pop up soon.

Thats not fair. We need a free inbound link checker tool. We need yahoo siteexplorer. Give it back to us!

Noo, i dont’ like this. Yahoo site explorer was better without login…

We miss you “Site Explorer” !!! :)

It is a shame that the function of the Site explorer is closed now. It was nice to look around and see which links a certain website obtained…

A sad day for SEO, search marketers and Consultants.This tool was a gift.That was also free.

Asearchahead Consulting

There are no vacuums in the universe.

oh my god.why

With the closure of Site Explorer, are there any plans to offer competitive data in Bing Webmaster Tools, such as pages and links, similar to Site Explorer?

Instead of just killing off this tool why not make it a subscription service? I, and I’m sure many others too, would be willing to pay about $20 per month for something like this.

Yahoo site explorer, the back bone of links!

All the webmaster will miss the site explorer.

That’s sad, and it looks like YSE has really stopped working today, though it did earlier this week.

Oh well, now I’ll have to rely completely on seo spyglass, without double-checking with yahoo explorer.

@TigerSEO

Though I’ll miss yahoo site explorer, I quite agree with you – the seo place is overcrowded these days. Now that we have only paid options like spyglass and majestic left – though i think seo spyglass has a free version – there’ll be fewer inexperienced SEOs :D

It will be missed for sure but moving forward we need to look for viable substitutes – third party tools and services that still show us backlinks but do so for free or inexpensively – blekko search engine is not bad and free backlink source, so is ice rocket, and seo spyglass tool, freeware and paid versions, are just some of the ways for finding links in the post-yse era

It will further separate “professional” SEO people (with money to spend) frm those many smaller agencies or webmasters just interesetd in gaining some impression on the competetive situation

They have killed one of the best free online tool who give à correct backlinks list. The bad new (for them) is that this tool is mostly used by people who try to disturb the google ranking. The good new is that now google going to be better than before !

That’s really bad news for me..

I’m hoping Bing becomes as good and even better than Yahoo’s tool was.
So far it looks very promising, just need to get more data transfered.

I cant believe yahoo site explorer is gone, such a great tool, Bing webmaster tools can only get stronger, cant wait to see how it works now in webmaster tools

please help me to submit sitemap on bing?

oh ,my god!!!!!!why???????i need it!

so long, i missed so much

i do not like it one bit as i preferred yahoo or bing anyday. yahoo to me was far superior than bing. never liked bing. shows that microsoft is trying take over everything.

I’ll miss Site Explorer,too

I still think it a dumb thing to do, but I’ll still wish good luck in the further.!

Good luck Yahoo.!!

What a pity, to see the new weapon; Webmaster Tools

Hello, thanks i will try it

I miss this tool, is there is somting like this somewhere on the net ????

Why this excellent service is closed? We will very miss it..

I will miss this tool, where can I find somting like this (free) now?

Sad. Indeed…

I agree……yes!

Such a bad news! Lets hope this thing brings us to something better.

will bing support api ?

I can’t believe this! Its really very sad for me.I will miss Yahoo Site Explorer .This decision was not good

Removing Site Explorer and in particular Link: was a very foolish move and the only thing that gave Yahoo Search credibility.

Not a good idea… Site explorer was pretty good

what’s these things mean? dear

it’s a bad news. i like Yahoo! Search Site Explore very much. really baaaaaaaaad news

Oh ok. It’s sounds a bit interesting, the” partnership thing”.

Oh, ok. I hope it’s will be better. I am just hoping for the best

Let’s just hope for the best…

oh no…

oh noooo…

thanks your the information

Its a pity that Yahoo is not supporting site explorer any more

I need my data on yahoooooooooooooooooooooooooo0000000000ooooooooooo

Why is this necessary????

Let’s hope for better…

Heyy we will really miss you :(

Oh My God .Tell me it’s not ture

on no why ????

So sadddd, it was the only thing I used Yahoo for…

THIS IS TERRIBLE NEWS
BRING IT BACK!

This was such a great resource. Why on earth would you get rid of something that works so well?

This makes me sad. I used to use this tool a lot.

So sad to see the link analysis tool gone. It was a great tool…

It is very cool amd iam happy for this

Where are we go to “explore” other sites?

I am definitely impressed with Bing’s webmaster center. It’s no longer a useless tool it once was… It doesn’t seem to have all the functionality that yahoo’s site explorer had, though.

It is very cool amd iam happy for this

Definitely missing the Y! Explorer. But I hope Bing will start that soon in their Webmaster Tools.

Sure thing it is very useful as well as functional in all aspects of internet and search engine visibility.

What a shame. I used this tool everyday religiously. Still can’t believe they took it away.

There are a few good alternatives to Site Explorer like MajesticSEO and Blekko.

Really informative post.
Thanks for share…

Is there any impact?

I have to say I’m sad to see site explorer go. It was a great tool that I had in my SEOBook toolbar. Now I use Open Site Explorer which is another great tool but is paid if you want all of the great functionality and complete reporting.

I’ll miss Site Explorer, too. Cheers

I’ll miss Site Explorer, too. Cheers.

I will miss Site Explorers but if this is what they think it right, then i stand behind yahoo!

Yahoo Site Explorer has been closed, how and where to check yahoo backlink ? I think you not close this service..
Hapyy blogging..

Yahoo Site Explorer has been closed, how and where to check yahoo backlink ? I think you not close this service..
Hapyy blogging..

No way !! I loved that tool … now we don get to explore other sites :(

Sorry, adios Site Explorer

I guess we have to search for other tools that can show us the backlink count of our sites…

R.I.P Site Explorer

How to make for Site Explorer Reminder ?