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Yahoo Site Explorer Enhances Backlink Feature

December 07, 2005

Erik Dafforn

The Yahoo Search Blog announced enhancements to the Yahoo Site Explorer yesterday that make your backlink searches more efficient than ever.

The interface now allows you to filter your backlinks (Yahoo calls them "inlinks") so that your own domain does not appear in the list:

filter your own site out of backlink results

  • Select Except from this domain to filter out your top-level domain, along with all subdomains on that domain.
  • Select Except from this subdomain to filter out only your specific subdomain. For example, if you have a blog on the blogspot.com domain, selecting this option will show links from other blogspot.com blogs, but not your own.

Like always, Yahoo shows incoming links even if they contain the "nofollow" attribute. This underscores the point that the nofollow link attribute is quite different from the nofollow command in the robots meta tag. Links that contain the nofollow attribute are recognized as links and crawled just as any other link. They're simply not offering an authoritative "vote" that might help the recipient site's rankings.

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posted by Erik Dafforn at December 7, 2005 12:46 PM
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nice blog vom yahoo . too lern enving

Posted by: alberto at February 9, 2010 12:26 PM

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