I was just reading a newsletter with tips for generating website traffic and it mentioned using Yahoo to check incoming links by using the old “link:” method in the search bar.

This works great, but, Yahoo also offers another great tool (in beta) that gives you a little clearer picture with a lot more flexibility.

With Yahoo! Site Explorer you can view a list of all of the pages indexed on your site and filter by subdomains, AND view a list of all of the incoming links to your site with the ability to filter by domains, subdomains, URLs or combinations of those variables. You can even export your results to a TSV file, view Yahoo’s cache of each page or drill in further by individual page/URL. It’s a great tool that I don’t hear much about.

If you use Firefox, you can even download an extension that allows you to right-click any link on the web and plug it into Site Explorer - launching a new tab with the results.

Check it Out:
Yahoo! Site Explorer


Tagged as: Search Engines, Yahoo, SEO, SEO Tools