For Business Success: How do I find links to my site?
Posted by Michael Hartzell on Sat, Apr 17, 2010
Business success is dependent upon visitors. Visitors online must know how to locate you. Links from other websites to yours are means to let people know where you are. No links to your business online reduces the chance of being found. Each link to your website is another door leading to your website. Those businesses with more links have more authority in the eyes of search engines. Each link is a "vote" saying: Your business is a place to be.
Can't find links to your site from the other businesses?
Here is a list of tools to measure links to your site. Track this important metric for your business to measure success.
Linkscape provides never-before-accessed link data on over 54+ billion URLs across 230+ million domains.
SEMRush.com was designed by the developers of SeoDigger and SeoQuake
to satisfy your needs in advanced SEM and keywords research. They analyze 40 million keywords for 20 million domains. 21 000 users registered.
Majestic-SEO is the worlds largest backlinks and anchor text database. Our proprietary robots have crawled over 137 billion webpages and found over 1,137 billion unique links and their anchor text.This information is available in detailed reports, where links and anchor text are shown in order of importance, based on their backlinks. Each website's backlinks can all be downloaded as '.CSV' file.
Find backlinks linking to a website and their URL information.
How popular is your website? This tool will show you how many other sites are linking to you. Most search engines use this data to calculate how popular your website is.
Type the URL of your website to get complete detailed information about quality and quantity of backlinks pointing to your website. It will show you "anchor" text, pagerank, total outbound links on that page, and nofollow flag for each of your inbound link available.
A free tool that will not only check the number of links to your website, it will also analyze and score your website for SEO in a variety of ways. (The grader does not give you the specific list of links however.)
Widexl
Widexl designed this search engine optimization tool for to check link popularity from websites. The Link Popularity analysis script will search Google, AltaVista, MSN, HotBot, Lycos to determine how many pages are linking to your web page. Many search engines today are ranking web sites by the number of sites linking to them. Link Popularity analysis is also important for a high keyword search engines page ranking and PageRank. Take a link popularity analysis and check your link popularity against that from your competitors.
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Backlink Checker
This free tool analyzes up to 1000 inlinks (backlinks, inbound links) to arbitrary page (or website) and shows domains of backlinks. It shows separately different classes of URLs like .edu, .mil, .com, .net, .gov and other. It is similar to host and IP backlinks checker, but it might be a bit faster and doesn't do IP address analysis of backlinks.
SEOBook offers expert SEO and internet marketing advice, tools, books, and software.
Get a free email each month to report who links to your website from Google, MSN and Yahoo.
To see the inbound links of a page in Yahoo, use this command:
linkdomain:www.yourtargetsite.com
or
link:http://www.targetsite.com
Or, use this command to see the links of a page, except the links from other pages on the same site:
linkdomain:www.yoursite.com -domain:www.yoursite.com
Here is SiteExplorer on Yahoo. Site Explorer allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search. View the most popular pages from any site, dive into a comprehensive site map, and find pages that link to that site or any page.
To see the inbound links of a page in Bing, use this command:
linkdomain:www.yourtargetsite.com
Or, use this command to see the links of a page, except the links from other pages on the same site:
linkdomain:www.yourtargetsite.com -domain:www.yourtargetsite.com
How can I find links to my site on Google?
How do I find links to my site using Google?
You can perform a Google search using the link: operator
to find a sampling of links to any site. For instance, [link:www.google.com] will list web pages that have links pointing to the Google home page. Note there can be no space between the "link:" and the web page URL.
To see a much larger sampling of links to any verified site in Webmaster Tools:
- On the Webmaster Tools Home page, click the site you want.
- Under Your site on the web, click Links to your site.
Note: Not all links to your site may be listed. This is normal.
Unfortunately this is not like balancing a checkbook for business. Each tool will recognize a different number of links. Yahoo seems to be a popular tool for measuring. If you choose three different tools and check each month, you should be able to show progress.
Who links to me by Region? is a very handy tool to narrow down the geogrpahy.
Here is an example of how Hubpot Linkgrader looks for the last six months of www.michaelhartzell.com. As you can see, this website is new last year.
Lastly, here are references to build links to your site:
Inbound Links
How many other websites are linking to your site? If you are not yet a
Hubspot customer, you may need to use one of the
free tools available for knowing how to find links to your website.
How Can I Get DoFollow Links?
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