As you may know already, as a result of Yahoo’s transition to Bing as a backend for organic search results, the linkdomain: command has stopped working (MSN/Live/Bing discontinued the support for such commands a while ago). I’ve been seeing 0 results for linkdomain search for some time already – must be due to Yahoo/Bing testing things. Sure there is Yahoo! Site Explorer – but so many tools depend on linkdomain: command in Yahoo proper, and so many tools will only display all kinds of additional info for a site’s backlinks in regular Yahoo SERPs but not in Site Explorer. What’s a poor SEO to do?
Luckily, not all transitions happen fast. I am not sure for how much longer this will be working, but the transition to Bing has only affected the Yahoo.com site so far – not the regional sites. Just for the sake of a quick test, I checked a few regional versions of Yahoo for backlinks of Google.com and here is the result count I got (for the list of all Yahoo regional sites see here):
Yahoo! Austria – 765,000,000
Yahoo! Denmark – 767,000,000
Yahoo! France – 780,000,000
Yahoo! Germany – 783,000,000
Yahoo! Italy – 779,000,000
Yahoo! Netherlands – 784,000,000
Yahoo! Russia – 788,000,000
Yahoo! Spain – 783,000,000
Yahoo! Turkey – 734,000,000
Yahoo! UK – 784,000,000
Yahoo! Brazil – 778,000,000
Yahoo! Japan – 781,000,000
Talking of Yahoo! Japan, it will remain unaffected by this transition as it is a separate company and previously has chosen Google over Bing as its search results provider.
In the meantime, the linkdomain: command is still available via Yahoo! API (764,175,429 results) – at least at the time of this writing.
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