Help! How to search for incoming links on a specific domain?

[FlashDriveDT]

Does anyone know what search parameters to use in google search in order to check for all incoming links to my site on a specific domain? Is this actually possible?

I've tried the following things but none of them seem to produce any real results:
link:www. usbmemorysticks.net site:www. kharkovforum.com
url:www. usbmemorysticks.net site:www. kharkovforum.com
allinanchor:www. usbmemorysticks.net site:www. kharkovforum.com

From what I understand the first one is the correct one. Its possible of course that there is no more links to my site on that forum but I need to make absolutely sure. Because apparently somebody on there posted a link to my site or from my rover links which engaged in EPN affiliate cookie stuffing. Which of course I need to have stopped. So I guess I also should be searching for:

link:rover. ebay.com site:www. kharkovforum.com

Hmm, comes up blank. Please, I really need help with this. Needless to say I do not want to lose my EPN account!

[scott g]

Site Explorer - Search Results

Site Explorer - Search Results

That USB Memory Sticks site though has a 500 Internal Server Error

CHEERS!

[socialbookmark]

Yahoo explorer can give you total number of backlinks and it shows you 1,000 of them too. There are some other websites that use Yahoo explorer data and give you more information about each backlink. For example you can try backlinkwatch.com too to get more detailed information.

[Brad Callen]

Nothing is 100% accurate.

I think the wordpress.com has their blogs linked up with Google Blog Search and link: operator to keep an eye on fresh blog links coming in. This might work better for you than webmaster tools or site explorer as I know it can be difficult to spot the new from the old, especially when you are looking at all your links at the same time.

[dburk]

Hi FlashDriveDT,

The link: operator will only return about 1% of the known links, so that is not useful for your purpose.

You need to download Xenu's Link Sleuth software. It's designed for finding broken links on your website, but will serve the purpose for your needs. It will crawl the entire website and list every link on the website for you.

[FlashDriveDT]

Originally Posted by scott g

Site Explorer - Search Results

Site Explorer - Search Results

I have checked on yahoo explorer before but I cannot find any kharkovforum links. However the weird thing is the explorer says "2,417 inlinks" and when I check them out I can only get to the nunber 10 button, which stops at link 1000. How can I check the other links after 1000?

That USB Memory Sticks site though has a 500 Internal Server Error

CHEERS!

Yeah, I had added a spam referrer block in my htaccess but it wasn't correct. It was like this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} kharkovforum\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]

That creates an internal server error and I needed to add:
# Options +FollowSymlinks
after the "RewriteEngine on".
Now it works again.

However, this referer spam block doesnt do me anything in case somebody over there posted an actual rover ebay link with my publisher ID. What to do about that?

Originally Posted by Brad Callen

Nothing is 100% accurate.

I think the wordpress.com has their blogs linked up with Google Blog Search and link: operator to keep an eye on fresh blog links coming in. This might work better for you than webmaster tools or site explorer as I know it can be difficult to spot the new from the old, especially when you are looking at all your links at the same time.

Thanks, but I dont see how that helps. My site is not on wordpress.com, it only uses wordpress to create the blog. And kharkovforum is not a blog. Or am I misundertanding you?

Originally Posted by dburk

Hi FlashDriveDT,

The link: operator will only return about 1% of the known links, so that is not useful for your purpose.

You need to download Xenu's Link Sleuth software. It's designed for finding broken links on your website, but will serve the purpose for your needs. It will crawl the entire website and list every link on the website for you.

That sounds promising. So you're saying I can use this software to crawl the kharkovforum site for any links to my domain? That would be awesome, I will give this a shot!

--> Hmm, Im doing a run on kharkovforum right now and I dont know how exactly I can look for links to usbmemorysticks.net. I checked "include external links" and something like "add these as internal links" where I inserted my domain. Its just producing a big list of green urls but not what links have been found? I think I need some guidance. Thanks!

[FlashDriveDT]

Dang, Ive been running Xenu on the kharkovforum for 4 hours now and its only 8% done. This is going to take a looong time - that site is HUGE!! (ca 350,000 urls to parse)