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Checking Backlinks

by nu2wf
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How is the best way to check the number of backlinks a site has? Thanks
#backlinks #checking
  • Profile picture of the author Quang Van
    The # of backlinks?

    You can check out SEO for Firefox, pluggin on SEObook

    or

    For google do a search:

    link:http://yourdomain.com/thepage.htm

    or use "Yahoo Site Explorer"
    https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites

    Type in your address, and then click "inlinks"; show inlinks "Except from this domain"...

    Hope that helps...
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  • Profile picture of the author Eric Stanley
    You can also try backlink checker.
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  • Profile picture of the author Angela V. Edwards
    Most of these sites won't give you all your backlinks. The best site to see the sheer number of backlinks is the Yahoo Site Explorer. Go to Yahoo Search and type in linkdomain:www.yoursite.com. This will give you the number of backlinks you have. Many backlink checkers just don't show them all. I don't know why.
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    • Profile picture of the author koolphoto
      I use SEO Elite and like it. Otherwise, I also go to Yahoo and use: linkdomain:www.yoursite.com

      Ken
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  • Profile picture of the author kposs
    Just for basic research and counts, I use "link:www.yourdomain.com" in AltaVista. It's the only thing I use that search engine for.

    Also, be sure to check "link:yourdomain.com". That can sometimes give you different results.

    Valerie
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  • Profile picture of the author freudianslip27
    Whatever you do, don't go by the number of backlinks google is showing. They only show part of what they have for you. Why that is, we'll never know!

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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    SEO Elite, here. It will show you backlinks from several search entities. i.e. Google, AltaVista, Yahoo, MSN, etc...
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  • Profile picture of the author nu2wf
    Thanks for the help. I'll check these out.
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