Beat your Competitors with Yahoo Search Bug

by George on July 16, 2008

A new Yahoo Directory bug shows sites hosted or ‘associated with’ yours. What you can use this for:

  • Finding spam link rings
  • Finding out which sites link to one another
  • Seeing whether a site ‘powers’ another
  • Identifying how your competitors get so many inbound links

Try it out:

http://search.yahoo.com/search/dir?ei=UTF-8&p=gocompare

{ 6 comments… read them below or add one }

Peter July 17, 2008 at 2:38 pm

Hi

I would like to ask you chaps a question about the on-line Insurance markets in Italy but I would rather not post my enquiry publicly at this time, have you a general mail contact address I can use ?

Peter

George July 17, 2008 at 5:13 pm

@Peter,
You could try our new Contact Us page (up at the top). It ’should’ work! Drop a comment here if you’ve sent something and we’ll check.

George Galloway July 19, 2008 at 3:59 pm

You chaps seem to have a habit of making an example of your competitors

George July 20, 2008 at 1:42 pm

@George Galloway
How is this making an example of our competitors? We’ve provided tools for everybody in the market to see what’s going on. It would be the same if you signed up for hitwise or comscore – you get more information about your competitors that allows you to make better informed decisions.

Peter July 24, 2008 at 10:27 am

Hi Chaps
Forwarded two messages via the contact page, I forgot to “Drop a comment here if you’ve sent something and we’ll check”

Peter

Wendy Ragiste August 7, 2008 at 4:17 pm

What an intruiging little quirk.

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