Yahoo's New Beta Site Explorer

Just a quick note about a new free tool that I just stumbled upon myself this morning.

Yahoo! Site Explorer is a tool that's still in Beta, but it lets you explore the all of the pages indexed by Yahoo! Search as well as explore the backlinks of each page.

Here's the link: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com

I just started playing with it myself so I'm not sure of all the features. But it looks like a good way to quickly take inventory of a site's structure and backlinks.

Looks a bit like a poor-man's SEO Elite in that you can research your competitor's link structure and search for your own link partners.

However, SEO Elite offers far more details about the backlinks that Site Explorer doesn't. And of course Site Explorer only provides Yahoo! results. You still need a way to research in Google and MSN.

But hey, its free. It will give you a good idea of how well you site is doing in terms of backlinks. And if you find you need more information than it can give you, which you eventually will, you can always upgrade to SEO Elite.

SEO Elite is not free, but it will quickly pay for itself in the time it saves you.