SEOmoz recently announced the launch of the second version of Open Site Explorer, which includes some exciting new features. The release of Open Site Explorer came swiftly after the SEOmoz team annouced the retirement from the SEO consulting industry, which no means they spend their full time creating software, tools and widgets that sport the SEO industry as a whole (We can now officialy see them a leader in the industry).

New Features Include:

• Top Pages on a Domain
• Target URL
• Comprehensive CSV Export (Waaahoooooo!)
• Usability Enhancements
• Improved Filtering

New Feature 1: Top Pages on a Domain

The new version of OSE (Open site explorer) allows the user / marketer to produce a list of the top 10,000 pages on a domain. An amazing new feature which provides a deep analytical insight that was NEVER avaible before… essential for viewing your site and more importantly for providing competitive analysis on numerous sites! Another cool feature is ability to show the header status of a page, indicating wether its 301, 302, 404 or 200 ok! Neat!

Target URL

The new version of Open Site Explorer shows you which URL a given link is targeting when you sort by sub or root domains so you can see exactly where the given link is helping you.

CSV Export!

OSE is now offering more robust CSV exports.

Usability Enhancements

Remember how you used to have to reload the page every time you applied a filter in Yahoo! Site Explorer?  With the addition of the Filter Results button, these needless page reloads are a thing of the past.

Yahoo! Vs Link Scape Vs Open Site Explorer

Down to the nitty-gritty, what does it mean for us SEO’s? Well, you now get to export data for upto 10,000, we’re talking “majestic SEO” style now! Below comparison image from SEOmoz

The time has come to launch the new SEOMYSITE blog! Previously operating as a freelance SEO consultant, I have now I’ve given up my evening job and now focus solely on my day job as an SEO specialist for Switched Media. But don’t worry all you seo freelancers out there, a section of this site will be devoted to listing some of the “greats” in the industry, in a small directory, which is coming soon, very soon in-fact.

In the meantime, watch this space for SEO, Social Media, Viral & not forgetting paid search related posts. If you like to sign-up as a guest poster, please feel to let me know, and I will consider your input.