How to check back links on search engines?
As I told in my previous post that back linking is much important part of off site SEO. You have more back links its mean you have more chance to get better page rank in Google or any other search engine. The problem is that how to check back links in search engines? I am going to mention here methods for checking back links.
To check back links in Google open google.com or type the following command in google search box via Google toolbar
link:domain or link:url
Here is the link which will show you back links of page-rank10.com
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enPK238__238&q=link%3Apage-rank10.com&btnG=Search
Yahoo
To check back links in Yahoo search engine same link Google. Open yahoo.com and type the following commands in Yahoo search box.
link:domain or link:url
The following link will show you back link details of page-rank10.com
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.page-rank10.com&y=Explore+URL&fr=sfp
MSN or Live Search
To check back links in MSN or Live search the method is same like Google and Yahoo. Open search.msn.com and type the following command in search box.
link:domain or link:url
the following link will show you back link details of page-rank10.com on MSN search
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=link%3Apage-rank10.com&go=&form=QBLH
Altavista
Altavista back link counter will show same like Google, Yahoo and MSN search. Type link:domain or link:url in altavista search box and get list of back links.
See the back link result of page-rank10.com on altavista.com
http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=link%3Apage-rank10.com&kgs=1&kls=0
Alltheweb
Same like previous search engines alltheweb.com shows back link result and uses same command.
See the back link result of page-rank10.com on alltheweb.com
How to check link popularity?
Back linking to other websites is very important part of off site SEO but the problem is that how to check your link popularity on Google. Google updates back link counter after 4 months average for each site. Webmasters are always keen to know about their link popularity.
Normally you can check your link popularity at google by the following query in Google search box.
- link:domain or link:url
But as I told you that it will not useful for you every time. So open google.com website (do not use google toolbar) and type your domain name including extension e.g. page-rank10.com
The following link will show you link popularity of page-rank10.com on Google.com
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enPK238__238&q=page-rank10.com&btnG=Search
More you can check your link popularity on alexa.com
The following link wil show you link popularity of page-rank10.com on Alexa.com
http://www.alexa.com/data/ds/linksin/page-rank10.com?q=link:page-rank10.com/