Comments on: Checking backlinks with Yahoo’s Site Explorer Inbound Links API

By: John Faulds

John Faulds — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:16:49 +0000

There's a few listed here.

By: Kang

Kang — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:11:59 +0000

Any other idea for back links please

By: Matt Brading

Matt Brading — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:30:25 +0000

OK, thanks for the quick response John.

By: John Faulds

John Faulds — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:21:05 +0000

Matt, if you follow the link to the Site Explorer Inbound Links API from the article you’ll see there’s a notice at the top saying the service was shut down on September 15 which is probably why it’s not working.

By: Matt Brading

Matt Brading — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:15:30 +0000

Just wondering if anyone can post a link to this script in action?

I’ve tried calling it from a test page using the function call … backlink(‘http://www.example.com‘) … but I only get a blank page, so guessing I’m doing it wrong?

Any suggestions or examples?

Thanks!

Matt

By: Hampers

Hampers — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:25:38 +0000

Have used the backlink checker suggested in entry 27 above and have to recommend it.

By: John Faulds

John Faulds — Sun, 30 May 2010 21:00:33 +0000

Thanks for the update Al. I actually haven’t done much with this code or the Yahoo API since writing the article.

By: Al Manchester

Al Manchester — Sun, 30 May 2010 20:11:38 +0000

I think that since you wrote the code Yahoo has changed the API, as you can now ask it to filter out any links from that chosen domain. I found your code really useful though.

Does anyone have any experience with the daily limits that Yahoo imposes? Is there anything that can be done to increase them?

By: instinctis

instinctis — Sun, 30 May 2010 02:48:49 +0000

Great points you’ve posted here, thanks. Is completely true that yahoo is a great engine for checking your backlinks / InLinks (and a little more) as it seems more accurate than others when it comes to Inlinks…anyway I used to do the queries manualy untill i found this free tool: http://ministatus.com which also alows one to download the results in pdf file and also generates the free badge price for each and every queried websites.

By: sheetal

sheetal — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:14:47 +0000

Nice Article.
I need a help in this little bit more.

I’ll type in a URL of the site I want the result of, then
1) first it will go to yahoo site expolorer to see all of it’s backlinks there and store them then it will go to each site in that list and do the same thing
actually the first bit where I put the url in it should also have an input for “depth to crawl”
and that should tell the script how many times it should do this
so if depth is 1
it would store all the sites found for the URL and 1 level below
so the same for each of the sites in that list.

Any help for this will really appreciated.

Thanks