A colleague and friend, Julie Cheung showed me some odd results in Yahoo’s site explorer this morning – The number of backlinks are shown to be very low for all sites (including the most popular ones out their such as apple.com) For example: This seems to be caused by the Merge with Bing and using Bing’s results. Performing the same query in Bing returns the same number of backlinks (188 in this case): So if this remains thus, Open Site Explorer is you next best tool. However I presume Bing won’t leave it at this and will return true numbers in the coming months as to give...

- What is Blekko? blekko is a better way to search the web by using slashtags. slashtags search only the sites you want and cut out the spam sites. use friends, experts, community or your own slashtags to slash in what you want and slash out what you don’t. Read more at Blekko’s website. Now you know what Blekko is, where’s the great tool I speak about? Blekko takes slashtags to refine it’s search results however certain slashtag’s reveal some different results. I’m talking about the /SEO tag: This is just a taste of what Blekko have to offer. There are many more options and data...

Ever since Bing launched, I’ve kept a close eye on it and followed it closely as an SEO. Regularly I am required to perform in-depth analysis into websites prior to starting their SEO campaign and also those sites which should be ranking higher and one major aspect of this analysis is with regards to on-page. My main tool to find problems with a site are the search engines themselves using their advance operators and this is where Bing is much better than Google IMO. We know Google likes to filter out seemingly non-relevant results and sometimes due to this, also *hides* important results (such as...