Comments on: Yahoo Site Explorer has big backlink update

By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:00:48 +0000

Site Explorer is VERY sluggish right now but is reporting Inlinks (93,020) for toprankblog.com, down by about 500k.

By: Jeremy Steele

Jeremy Steele — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:31:59 +0000

Mine has dropped a good amount as well. Can’t remember the exact amount, but I think it was around 300 before now its about 60.

By: Patrick Altoft

Patrick Altoft — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:56:14 +0000

Interesting that the data is different. There is also a forum thread with others reporting this fall.

By: Widgett Walls

Widgett Walls — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:13:42 +0000

Hmm, 4259. Not as drastic a reduction as you saw, naturally, but still.

By: randfish

randfish — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:59:07 +0000

Patrick – when Site Explorer does this (which we see every once in a while), I tend to go back to using the manual link searches like “linkdomain:seomoz.org -site:seomoz.org” at Yahoo! – which still reports around 1mil and for Blogstorm gives 14K… Frustrating because it’s hard to know which is the the most accurate.

By: Jeremy Luebke

Jeremy Luebke — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:07:24 +0000

10,000 down to 2,000 for one client I just checked.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:46:10 +0000

links from my pages are fine and also..

Inlinks (1,634,004) for SEOMoz

so everything seems normal.

By: Patrick Altoft

Patrick Altoft — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:35:49 +0000

Kevin, when I click the link in your comment I see totally different figures. Will be interesting to see how it develops.

By: Andy C

Andy C — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:29:07 +0000

God. You are right. 17 down to 3.

By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:55:58 +0000

I think that’s a good thing. My blog is very new and Yahoo was reporting hundreds of links back to it which I knew weren’t there. If you actually want to use that information, having such inflated numbers makes it virtually impossible.