This is a helpful and efficient asset for both Webmasters and SEOs.

Thank You :-)

Anticipate using it very often

Really looking forward to more innovations from Yahoo!! (That's Yahoo! - plus exclamation)

An asset to SEOs? I certainly hope not! I like to see relevant search results, not "optimized" ones.

This site is an option for SEO site research, as opposed to their using the Search.yahoo.com for their analyses

Yahoo's Search SERPs are still as relevant as before - it is just that siteexplorer ONLY accepts - "URLs" -
as queries, and adds a more related format.

The 5000 rate limiting will be a big problem for Onlinetools. So the most will probably prefer to scrape your sites in the future as they do are doing it now. Furthermore I hoped to discover with the siteexplorer more than 1000 links. At the moment I am a little disappointed.

Simple. For vbulletin or similar sites, let us submit the url like this:

http://www.domain.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1
through
http://www.domain.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1001

where you increment the numbers. And you can infer that this number grows over time so we shouldn't have to revisit all the time to submit.

Maybe give us an interface for telling you through a file on our site updated daily saying the high and low number for the various url schemes.

Thanks! That's a neat toy, very much appreciated. As requested, here is a greedy geek's wish list.

Oups, tags stripped out ... here is the wish list:
http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=104

Very cool. I saw this as SES and was anxiously anticipating it. My only feedback would be allow downloading a TSV of more than 50 items. I tried to browse to the second and third SERPs hoping this would allow me to download a tsv of the next and subsequent 50 links, but each page only download the original 50.

I am ALL FOR getting info from tools from the SE's. This stuff about looking at your incoming links is cool and all, but what about learning more about who's clicking through?

With personalized search results becoming all the rave, and every person receiving a different set of search results for the same search, how will we know where we ranked? How will the API's work with that?

With personalized search, the SE's will have lots of info about the people clicking through to our site. But how will that info be passed on to us?

I'm hoping information provided to search markers about their target markets & the places they advertise (free or not (PPC or organic)) will be much more than just a site where we can look up some link & page relationships, and instead maybe advancing to more the level of information we get about the people we advertise to in traditional marketing.

IM glad your paying attention to webmasters a little more.

For those who are interested I put together a script for IPB and vBulletin forums users to create a list that can be submitted to Site Explorer. The info for this app can be found here:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/yahoo_site_explorer.php

The inlink API does not seem to work correctly when specifying a start param.

Try this one:
http://api.search.yahoo.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/inlinkData?appid=YahooDemo&query=http://search.yahoo.com&results=5&start=3

Notice that in the resultant firstResultPosition is 1 though it should be 3, and totalResultsReturned is 7 though it should be 5.

HELP!

This is an asset for SEO's. We must start using this to figure out all the back links and status of web pages submission at Yahoo!

Hey Priyank... neat tool, but it doesn't really change what was available. Long time webmasters already know how to check links to a page and links to a domain - and they already know how to check indexing relating to the whole site or only folders or subdomains.

I see a few advnatages - one there is no description and two there is an API - but, it is missing some features to make it truly useful (thus, beta).

Give the ability to condense IBL's from the same domain into one listing (maybe with a number beside it totalling how many are from that domain) so that we can weed scraper sites. Allow us to download all the results, or at least a bit more than the first page, especially when you can't condense URL's.

Good move though in a show of making an effort at webmaster relations - more than some of the other engines have done.

How many URLs I can add to urllist.txt? For exaple: I have a website http://www.shoppingwallet.com with more than 10 000 000 Pages and I think it's too much for urllist.txt or urllist.txt.gz In one!!!

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How many URLs I can add to urllist.txt?

Try this one:
http://www.peles-group.com

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Right, I often use 'link' to use my backlinks. The different result showing in differnt engines suprise me. So, far, I think the 'link' tool in Yahoo is the best.