Yahoo Site Explorer Back Links

New Drop Down Menu Options?

[JeremyL]

I was just doing some research on Yahoo Site Explorer and noticed 2 drop down boxes when checking back links.

Box #1:
From All Pages
Except From This Domain
Except From This Subdomain

Box #2
Only This URL
Entire Site

Screenshots here [flickr.com...]

Are these new or was I just blind since everything switched to site explorer?

Nothing new here as this could always be done via the search box but it's a sign that Yahoo is trying to make it easier for novice webmasters to see whats happening with their own site.

[Fiver]

They've been there for at least a few weeks - not exactly certain when they showed up.

[tedster]

They've been there from the very beginning of Site Explorer -- powerful and easily overlooked functionality. I used to go to some extremes with my own tools to try to get to this kind of data. Site Explorer really rocks!

[JeremyL]

Ah ok. I think I kept missing them since most of my tools still send link requests using the -site:domain.com to the main Yahoo Search. If that command is there it does not redirect.

I also like to do -site:sitewidelinkdomain.com to get rid of sites with hundreds of links taking up the top 1000. You cannot do that in Site Explorer. I really wish they would add a feature to get rid of other domains from the link list also.

[koan]

You cannot do that in Site Explorer. I really wish they would add a feature to get rid of other domains from the link list also.

Yeah a few side wide links and the yahoo backlinks are arduous to use. I wish they would regroup all links from a single domain like MSN backlinks do, which I use in those cases. That can't that difficult to program... anyway. I hope it'll happen soon because it is otherwise a great tool.

[LunaC]

One thing I hope they add to those is the option to show links to pages (html, php etc.), not all files (png, gif, jpg etc.).

ie. the option to filter out people hotlinking images so I can see who the real linkers are and the option to show only hotlinkers.