Is there any alternatives to Yahoo Site Explorer?
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Hi,
Is there any alternatives to Yahoo Site Explorer?
I want to find backlinks of some unavailable pages and YSE was a great tool to deal with. But when I used tools like Open Site Explorer, ahrefs.com etc., I couldn't find one same like YSE. Because when I tried, it shows'No data available for this URL' where on YSE I found inbound links.
What Alternatives Are There?
thanks in advance!
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Hi Sha Menz,
Exactly this is what I was thinking and looking to hear! Really happy to find this information. Now I can move forward, because I was doubtful whether I was right or not. thanks so much!
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Hi Vipin,
Since you have all of the URLs in your robots.txt file (which incidentally is pointless since the pages are no longer there to crawl), I would suggest as follows:
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Create a 301 (Permanent) redirect in your Windows Server's "Internet Services Manager" (since you have moved files to .aspx you will be using a Windows server)
Since you indicated that you "moved" the pages in question from html to aspx, I would expect that you should be able to redirect to corresponding pages.
If I were doing this in a LAMP system (not Windows) I use a single line of code to rewrite all .html extensions to .aspx as a 301 Redirect.
Logically, it should be possible to do the same on a windows server, but since ours is a LAMP Shop I can't offer specifics on that I'm afraid -
Once the redirects have been created, remove all of those URL's from the robots.txt file
Hope that helps,
Sha
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Hi, thans so much! To understand it you should know a little more. Last year we removed my site's old html pages to .aspx pages and there after removing, all the html pages were added to robot.txt. But that time nobody taken care of backlink juice and for a redirection.
I never used MajesticSEO or Google/Bing's link: search operator. But use web analytics referral data. What more I must do to move forward?
Thanks.
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What do you mean by "unavailable pages/pages that doesn't exist"? Are they returning an HTTP status of 404 NOT FOUND? Have you heard of or ever tried MajesticSEO (https://www.majesticseo.com/)? You can even try using Google/Bing's link: search operator but you won't be able to export the data like YSE. Lastly, have you tried looking in your web analytics referral data? Although it won't illustrate the number of links to the page, it'll give you an idea which links are driving traffic on what domain.
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hi, this is not an error in copying or as you think. I have mentioned it, i need to find inbound links of pages that doesn't exist. In fact those pages are blocked using robot.txt. so no detail avail on google webmaster except robot.txt.
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To be sure you should copy the link from the browser and insert it to Opensiteexplorer. By doing that you should'nt get "no data available". You probably got it wrong with or without the sub www.
I dont get all backlinks in Opensiteexplorer but I do get pretty much all domains with influense (bigger sites). another tool is google webmaster tools. That would give you all the backlinks witch has driven traffic to yur site.
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