Find Out Who Links To Your website

In an effort to promote your website, you have probably employed wide variety of strategies. To rank well in the major search engines and in particular to rank well in Google you need quality links pointing to your website. Recently Google had provided more clarification about link building practices on Google Webmaster Central Blog. In a nutshell this article explains that Google will favor “sweat-of-the-brow” links pointing to your website. It will definitely affect such site as Tex-Link-Ads where you can buy links.

Having said this if you would like to find out which site has linked to you, Google provides very limited data in that regard. In Google, in order to find out which sites have links pointing to your website all you need to do is to type following into the search box: link:www.mywebsite.com – just substitute MYWEBSITE with your own url.

To have a better understanding of how many site have links pointing to your website, we reccomed trying Yahoo and MSN. Just type in their search box the same example and you will get the list of sites that have links pointing to your website. Among those results of course you are very likely to find your own website as well.

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1 Comment

  • Brian says:

    Hey Vlad!
    Thank you for the tip. For long I have been using the Backlinks Checker Tool (www.backlinkwatch.com) but puttind code directly into Google is much more convenient.

    Take care!