Just recently, Yahoo has announced on their blog that their most popular backlinks tools and one of the oldest and best professional SEO tools, Yahoo Site Explorer, is now going to be shut down by the end of this year.
Many search engine optimization experts had been expecting this.
The SEO tool was first launched last September 29, 2005, almost six years ago.
According to Hemant Minocha, Product Manager, Yahoo Site Explorer, “In an August 2010 blog post, we said we would continue Site Explorer with a focus on new features for webmaster community, even after the transition to Microsoft platforms is complete.”
“We listened to your feedback, and along with the team from Bing Webmaster Center looked jointly at the roadmap for the webmaster tools. Having two webmaster portals for a single source for organic results does not add enough value. Once organic results are transitioned to Bing in all the markets, we plan to shut down Yahoo! Site Explorer and Microsoft’s Webmaster Tools will be the source for Bing and Yahoo! webmaster site and analytics data.”
Yahoo recommends that webmasters sign up with Bing Webmaster Tools and use that as Yahoo shuts off Site Explorer.
Microsoft Webmaster Tools is supposed to pick up where Yahoo left off.
Later this year, Yahoo anticipates that Microsoft’s search platform will be the one to power its organic results in all parts of the world. Then after that point, any optimization that you do on Bing Webmaster Center tool will be reflected in Yahoo! organic search results.
Yahoo assured website owners that “Although the organic results will be powered by Microsoft Search platforms, Yahoo! will continue to innovate on the search experience beyond the services delivered by Microsoft. In order to provide Yahoo! users with an amazing search experience, our slurp crawlers may continue to selectively crawl websites to help support these efforts.”
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