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Backlink competition spying?

by MikeMarin
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I was wondering what are the best ways to determine where your competitor is getting back links from. I have been using SEO Quake but I keep getting a 999 error - unable to process this request from Yahoo. Just wondering how some of the SEO experts do it? Thanks
#backlink #competition #spying
  • Profile picture of the author MemberWing
    I use Site Explorer - Yahoo! Site Explorer
    Although it shows approximately 2/3 of links that my own google webmasters account sees.
    There are probably more automated ways to list backlinks.

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  • Profile picture of the author rogershepard
    Thanks for the tip will check it out. Roger
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  • Profile picture of the author ehicks727
    I don't like Yahoo site explorer because they show EVERY link from every domain. I like to just see what domains links are coming from and Google does that very nicely with the link command

    link:www.domain.com

    However, I do use Site Explorer to see if the links are site-wide or not. Site-wide links aren't as value-passing as contextually placed links with good anchor text.
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    • Profile picture of the author The Copy Nazi
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      Originally Posted by ehicks727 View Post

      I don't like Yahoo site explorer because they show EVERY link from every domain. I like to just see what domains links are coming from and Google does that very nicely with the link command

      link:www.domain.com

      However, I do use Site Explorer to see if the links are site-wide or not. Site-wide links aren't as value-passing as contextually placed links with good anchor text.
      Good tip. BUT you must make sure you leave a space after the colon or you won't get the right result. Like this link: www.yourdomain.com
      NOT like this - link:www.yourdomain.com
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      • Profile picture of the author ehicks727
        Originally Posted by Metronicity View Post

        Good tip. BUT you must make sure you leave a space after the colon or you won't get the right result. Like this link: www.yourdomain.com
        NOT like this - link:www.yourdomain.com
        uhh... was that supposed to be a joke or something??

        if you put a space in, that doesn't give you link statistics.. that just gives you a search for the word "link" and the domain. I don't think you know what you're talking about.
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        • Profile picture of the author The Copy Nazi
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          Originally Posted by ehicks727 View Post

          uhh... was that supposed to be a joke or something??

          if you put a space in, that doesn't give you link statistics.. that just gives you a search for the word "link" and the domain. I don't think you know what you're talking about.
          You're quick.
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        • Profile picture of the author askloz
          no it dont, it tells you all the links that google knows about, and if you want to suppress the link: then put in -link: at the end

          this is a tactic I told ppl about over a year ago to find the proper links that google knows about.

          Originally Posted by ehicks727 View Post

          uhh... was that supposed to be a joke or something??

          if you put a space in, that doesn't give you link statistics.. that just gives you a search for the word "link" and the domain. I don't think you know what you're talking about.
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  • Profile picture of the author intelinside
    You can also check this using various tools available and also some FF extensions can help you to get this.
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  • Profile picture of the author Yusuf
    SeoQuake is a good extension for Firefox to do this.
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  • Profile picture of the author geoffcruz
    Ill tell you a secret where you can spy on your competition and where do they link from, go to marketleap.com and use the popularity function.

    Hope that helps you.
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