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How to Check Backlinks for Specific EZA Articles

by Daniel Scott
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Hi Warriors,

I'm trying to check backlinks for specific EZA articles but keep coming up with no hits, even on my own articles which I KNOW have backlinks to them, and at least some of which I'm positive have been spidered.

Anyone know how I can check this?

-Dan
#articles #backlinks #check #eza #specific
  • Profile picture of the author freetraff
    Originally Posted by Daniel Scott View Post

    Hi Warriors,

    I'm trying to check backlinks for specific EZA articles but keep coming up with no hits, even on my own articles which I KNOW have backlinks to them, and at least some of which I'm positive have been spidered.

    Anyone know how I can check this?

    -Dan
    The backlink checking issue for a specific page or site is the weak point for almost all search engines. Basically this is because it is their INTENT to NOT show all backlinks they see.

    I made a short video that explains why this happened and how to check the backlinks - please watch it here
    The Yahoo search tool quoted in the video is http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
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    • Profile picture of the author dburk
      Hi freetraff,

      I'm sorry I have to disagree with your premise. There is no specific number of backlinks needed to make it to the top in Google results, this is a myth. A single quality backlink can be worth more than 10,000 free-for-all links. Quality is paramount.

      While it's true that Google does not show competitors your true number of backlinks, they do show your own true number in Webmaster Tools. You must verify that you control the website before they will reveal this data (A privacy issue).

      There are many other factors besides backlinks that determine how you will rank in SERPs. I have seen many a folk rise to the top without creating more than one or two backlinks for themselves.
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      • Profile picture of the author freetraff
        Originally Posted by dburk View Post

        Hi freetraff,

        I'm sorry I have to disagree with your premise. There is no specific number of backlinks needed to make it to the top in Google results, this is a myth. A single quality backlink can be worth more than 10,000 free-for-all links. Quality is paramount.

        While it's true that Google does not show competitors your true number of backlinks, they do show your own true number in Webmaster Tools. You must verify that you control the website before they will reveal this data (A privacy issue).

        There are many other factors besides backlinks that determine how you will rank in SERPs. I have seen many a folk rise to the top without creating more than one or two backlinks for themselves.
        I agree, quality is paramount - will never dispute about that.

        But, quality is also a tricky issue. For example, many people think that quality is PR - I do not think so. But let's go even further...

        I think that backlinks even from fresh/green page can be quality one way backlinks, surely provided it is:

        - backlink from the real unique text - blog posts in my case
        - on relevant sites
        - sites on different IPs
        - etc.

        I assume that you would never call backlinks from fresh blog post to be super quality (you did not say that, but this is my assumption that you would not call them to be of paramount quality).

        However thanks to these fresh/green blog posts and backlinks from them I have managed to get Google page 1 for 'free traffic' with ~ 3,000,000 direct link building competitors (at least this is what Google is showing inanchor:"free traffic" - Google Search) in less than 3 weeks.

        Not the top quality backlinks, not the best paramount quality I think - but works.

        Lower quality + bigger numbers can beat higher quality + smaller numbers!

        P.S. But, of course, at least some viable quality and SEO precautions are a must when building backlinks. Link farms, link brokerage and other SEO dangerous stuff needs to be avoided.
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        • Profile picture of the author dburk
          Hi freetraff,

          I'm glad to see you agree with the "quality is paramount" comment.

          It sounds like you definitely have the right ideas about link quality. Pagerank is for the most part meaningless, but shhh... Please dont tell our competitors this.

          The most important "quality" is relevance. The second most important quality is... well... relevance, relevance in the traffic the linking page receives and of course the amount of relevant traffic is certainly an indication of quality.

          If you ad the relevance of your anchor text then you have the three most important factors in building backlinks: relevance, relevance and relevance.


          To recap, the following factors make up quality in backlinks:
          1. Relevant Content
          2. Relevant Traffic
          3. Relevant Anchor Text
          Let the rest of the world have all the high PR and dofollow links they want, I'll take the three R's.
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          • Profile picture of the author freetraff
            Originally Posted by dburk View Post

            Hi freetraff,

            To recap, the following factors make up quality in backlinks:[LIST=1][*]Relevant Content[*]Relevant Traffic[*]Relevant Anchor Text
            I would just make your list about relevance a little bigger:

            - relevance of the site (from where you build backlinks)
            - relevance of the content (from which you are building backlinks)
            - relevance of anchor text
            - relevance of the text ON the page to which you are building backlinks

            NOTE: Though we must reserve some vagueness for the term 'relevance'.
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  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Scott
    The problem was actually that Yahoo! Site Explorer wasn't working, just temporarily down I guess. I thought it was an issue with the EZA link. NVM!

    -Dan
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    • Profile picture of the author freetraff
      But as I said in my video, Yahoo is not the best tool to check backlink number for Google.

      I know several SEO gurus (who sell backlink checking tools) and they say that Yahoo and Google should be close in their ways of indexing and "seeing" backlinks.

      But, to my mind, this is a lame excuse of the people who have nothing else to do but giving excuses why they are using Yahoo tool to check backlinks (otherwise they will not be able to sell these backlink checking tools to the masses).

      I am sure that if you ask these gurus to bet really big sum of money on supporting the statement "Google and Yahoo are very close in the way they see backlinks" they will do everything possible to dodge this bet.
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