How do I find out what web sites link to mine?

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Is there a way of using something like as a search engine to find out which web sites out there link to mine?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 07 '12 at 21:10

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In google type: link:yoursite.com

Also their webmaster tools will give you a better rundown. Bing also has webmaster tools.

edited Feb 07 '12 at 21:10

rogerdpack

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answered Sep 21 '10 at 01:15

Brian R. Bondy

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The webmaster tools are definitely the winners here. The link: syntax gives incomplete results. – Alex Angas Sep 21 '10 at 01:25
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You're better off trying this in Yahoo, not Google. You get redirected to http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com which is pretty good. – DisgruntledGoat Sep 21 '10 at 10:21
It doesn't seem to work anymore – Gunar Gessner Jul 08 '20 at 08:19

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 21 '10 at 05:25

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It's pay-for-play, but SEOmoz recently released their "Open Site Explorer" tool which analyzes backlinks, (amongst other things) as well.

answered Sep 21 '10 at 05:25

danlefree

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You can see the top 25 backlinks for free! – DisgruntledGoat Sep 21 '10 at 10:20

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 02 '13 at 14:36

http://developer.yahoo.com/search/siteexplorer/ is much better than using "link:yoursite.com" in Google search.

The 1st one will give you a much wider list of links to your site. Google "link:yoursite.com" used to give you many results too, but after they did some changes on it and now is returning nothing compared to what site explorer returns.

Unfortunately Microsoft took over Yahoo and there seem to be plans to turn siteexplorer off soon: "The Yahoo! Site Explorer team is planning tighter integration between Site Explorer and Bing Webmaster..."

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 07 '12 at 16:57

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You can install google analytics on your page and see "some" backlinks there, by seeing url's that have sent customers to your site.

answered Feb 07 '12 at 16:57

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 07 '12 at 17:09

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Try www.backlinkwatch.com it mines the search engines for backlinks to you and shows you the results with pagerank values attached.

answered Feb 07 '12 at 17:09

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