{"id":200,"date":"2010-08-24T15:25:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T21:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2010-08-24T15:38:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T21:38:15","slug":"yahoo-linkdomain-death-and-a-temporary-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/24\/yahoo-linkdomain-death-and-a-temporary-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo Linkdomain Death (and a Temporary Solution)"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you may know already, as a result of Yahoo’s transition to Bing<\/a> as a backend for organic search results, the linkdomain: command has stopped working (MSN\/Live\/Bing discontinued the support for such commands<\/a> a while ago). I’ve been seeing 0 results for linkdomain search<\/a> 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?<\/p>\n

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<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Yahoo! Austria – 765,000,000<\/p>\n

Yahoo! Denmark – 767,000,000<\/p>\n

Yahoo! France – 780,000,000<\/p>\n

Yahoo! Germany – 783,000,000<\/p>\n

Yahoo! Italy – 779,000,000<\/p>\n

Yahoo! Netherlands – 784,000,000<\/p>\n

Yahoo! Russia – 788,000,000<\/p>\n

Yahoo! Spain – 783,000,000<\/p>\n

Yahoo! Turkey – 734,000,000<\/p>\n

Yahoo! UK – 784,000,000<\/p>\n

Yahoo! Brazil – 778,000,000<\/p>\n

Yahoo! Japan – 781,000,000<\/p>\n

Talking of Yahoo! Japan, it will remain unaffected by this transition<\/a> as it is a separate company and previously has chosen Google over Bing<\/a> as its search results provider.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, the linkdomain: command is still available via Yahoo! API<\/a> (764,175,429 results) – at least at the time of this writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irishwonder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}