Fuck. YSE is shutting down.



Don't alll the premium tools use YSE API as the "major/primary" source of their Backlinks? WIth YSE, even they won;t be so accurate would they? Or what do they use?

Their own crawlers, which is why they charge so much.
 
Good to hear. Makes it more difficult for competitors to copy your links and rat you out.

I bet SEOMOZ are pretty chuffed about this news. The problem with their tool is that they update monthly (I usually like to monitor/record links each week).
 
Well apparently the word is that Bing is supposed to get up to par soon. Hopefully they'll show as much as Yahoo did... Didn't test them out yet tho.
 
There are a variety of solutions out there that can fill their place. One great one has been mentioned in this thread. It's not that big of a loss

It's going to be a big PITA. It's going to break a ton of apps, scripts, and plugins for FireFox.

Hey is this true? or damn fake? That's impossible to shut down Yahoo! Site Explorer.. OMG

NIGGA WHAT
 
I'm with ly2, the mind boggles at how many WP plugins alone out there are based upon YSE backlink counts.

Worse yet, tools like MNF and SEO Elite, they depend on a rock-solid API... WTF are they going to do?

Slightly worried... I know other tools exist but are their indexes nearly as big as Yahoos?

Fuck a damn duck...
 
I'm with ly2, the mind boggles at how many WP plugins alone out there are based upon YSE backlink counts.

Worse yet, tools like MNF and SEO Elite, they depend on a rock-solid API... WTF are they going to do?

Slightly worried... I know other tools exist but are their indexes nearly as big as Yahoos?

Fuck a damn duck...

a good tool will be modified accordingly.

The bottom line is that our favorite backlink data source when checking Google Rankings isn't a Google tool but a Yahoo tool, so it's not as big of a deal as you are all making it out to be. We're just moving from one 3rd party tool to another essentially.

Unless everyone here is a Yahoo SEO expert.
 
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