It is sad to announce the retirement of this tool, but there are now many online alternatives...
- Blekko offers a lot of SEO data, including links (here are examples for link: & linkdomain:)
- the only downside to Blekko data is their 3 billion web page database tends to be a bit small when compared against either Bing or Google, so some of the weaker links may not appear in their database & they may have weaker coverage of non-US sites.
- Google & Bing have webmaster tools offerings.
- the only downsides to these are
- you generally have to be a verified webmaster to use them
- you can only pull data for your own websites
- if you want to remain anonymous to the search engines you can use some 3rd party SEO tools, or a regional search engine which has a webmaster tools section, like Yandex.
- the only downsides to these are
- Web-based SEO tools have come a long way since we created this tool. Both Majestic SEO & Open Site Explorer are great link sources.
- The only downsides to these are that they are paid
services. However, they tend to have increased usability over the free
products since they are paid tools. And both allow you to try before you
buy.
- SEOmoz (makers of OSE) offer a free one-month trial.
- Majestic SEO allows you to pull data on your own site free & offers a free view of historical link trend data.
- The only downsides to these are that they are paid
services. However, they tend to have increased usability over the free
products since they are paid tools. And both allow you to try before you
buy.
- Some other search services (like Exalead) also provide link: data, but there are not many web-scaled search services in existence & most independent search services rely on either Bing or Google data as their backbone.
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