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October 26, 2007

Update on Site Explorer Results and Counts Data

Recently, some of you noticed changes in counts for Site Explorer results, where the counts were different for logged-in users versus logged-out users.

While the counts have been incorrect in some cases, the actual returned results have been correct. However, we did roll out a product fix yesterday and will be rolling out a couple more over the next few days to resolve this difference in counts some of you have observed.

Please disregard any counts for inlinks reported by Site Explorer from October 11 through next week. Thank you for raising this issue.


Priyank Garg
Yahoo! Search

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I have also noticed that the number of links will change depending on which page of the results one is on.

linkdomain:www.marketingpiranha.com -site:www.marketingpiranha.com -site:marketingpiranha.com

All one query.

-T

Posted by: Tom Schmitz | October 26, 2007 05:45 PM

Thanks yahoo, you guys are the heroes of the SEO world.

Posted by: CVOS man | October 26, 2007 09:25 PM

It's nice when a big company like Yahoo! admits it's messed up something and is looking forward to correct it. I am waiting for the bug correction announcement.

Posted by: Alexis Kauffmann | October 27, 2007 07:17 AM

Thank you for the update. I wish you would also update your Yahoo badge widget as it never seems to display the correct amount of links to a site.

Posted by: Badlands07 | October 27, 2007 08:48 AM

Thats Great! we got such a quick reaction from Yahoo. This thing has been notices only a week ago I guess, when bloggers start blogging bout it.

Posted by: seoz87 | October 28, 2007 08:43 PM

I like the transparency here in informing the public.

Way to go Yahoo.

Posted by: Free Classifieds | October 29, 2007 02:23 AM

So Google do no evil, but Yahoo actually bothers to do good stuff. I think I know which is better. Nice one Yahoo!

Posted by: Rob White | October 29, 2007 03:08 AM

ya i also notice that but i thought it is problem from internet

Posted by: Hollywood Entertainment Blog | October 29, 2007 03:49 AM

I didn't visit Yahoo! search since long time.

I think it's the time to look into these great SEO stuff

Thank you Y!

Posted by: Arab | October 29, 2007 02:46 PM

Why yahoo site explore not update my XML?

Posted by: Dong | October 29, 2007 08:21 PM

Hi,

Yes i was going to send you guys a message about this, when i was browsing through site links, and got near to the end all of a sudden there were like another 1000 links suddenly been read by Yahoo! Still i dont have to now. Thanks yahoo!

Posted by: GHD User | October 30, 2007 01:19 AM

Great job you've made on this site, it helps me with overcoming my problems

Posted by: Baza Noclegowa | October 30, 2007 08:43 AM

Yep, Something to Yahoo about :), This is great.

Posted by: Carsen | October 30, 2007 07:48 PM

This is a long shot, but I don't imagine that the fixes will also deal with a problem I'm having? My blog changed domains about 10 months ago, and the old URL is redirecting (301) to it, but the backlinks are appearing against the old URL in Site Explorer.

This wasn't always the case - the old URL disappeared from being listed soon after the change, but it reappeared in late July...

Posted by: Alden | November 1, 2007 05:14 PM

I haven't logged in for a while, excellent improvements. This is much better than silly "G" webmasters tools, they have ruined it.

Posted by: Krod | November 3, 2007 06:42 PM

Nice, I have noticed this in the past. Glad this is being addressed. I agree, the Yahoo tools are great.

Posted by: Scottsdale AZ Real Estate | November 4, 2007 10:30 AM

Nice to see the correction we all have been waiting for. Thanks Yahoo!

Posted by: Jumbo-Links | December 1, 2007 04:30 AM

Does anyone know if the counts problem is resolved as yet? Site explorer is such a great tool, i depend on it to track my progress. Yahoo deserves much more credit from web masters than it gets.

Posted by: frank brown | December 11, 2007 12:03 PM

I'll try to keep an eye out for any similar problems.

Posted by: Apartment Bangkok | January 29, 2008 06:27 AM

Good to see Yahoo in consistently improving.

Posted by: charles chambers | March 16, 2008 07:27 PM

Yahoo seems to be making a lot of improvements lately well done.

Posted by: Pan | March 16, 2008 07:34 PM

consider yahoo links with rel=nofollow ?? or ignore it?

Posted by: Adas | March 25, 2008 09:02 AM