Yahoo Site Explorer Showing Less Backlinks
September 6th, 2008 by admin
After an update to Yahoo Site Explorer’s backlink tracking query results, Barry Schwartz reported over at SERoundtable that many webmasters were reporting a drop in their overall backlinks reporting, some with up to 100K backlinks missing.
Has Yahoo Site Explorer gone the way of the Googlebird in its backlinks reporting? Not yet, Yahoo does not seem to be limiting the amount of links being shown but may have possibly devalued some of the lesser important sites in its backlink reporting.
With multiple backlink generation systems and API driven research tools dependent upon Yahoo Site Explorer, I highly doubt the company would curtail one of the last lifelines it may have in its publisher relationship suite. (more…)
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