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Easy way to get accurate backlink counts from Google and Yahoo.

If you are a regular Google user and website owner, you know that the link: modifier doesn't give accurate results for the number of backlinks pointing at a site. In the good old days we'd go to alltheweb.com and do a search with link:www.ahfx.net to get an approximation of the number of backlinks because they didn't dummy down the number of backlinks like Google does. However, now we've got better tools. To get a more accurate backlink count you have a couple of options.

  1. Sign up for a Google account and go the the webmaster tools. You will first need to verify you own the account. Then you can access a number of important items like web crawl errors, statistics, and links. Just use the link tab to see a much more detailed view of backlinks.
  2. You can use Yahoo's Site Explorer. Yahoo's site explorer is a great little tool to figure out just who is linking to someone without going through the hoops of signing up with Google and verifying you own a domain.
  3. Use OpenSiteExplorer.org. OpenSiteExplorer powered by SEOmoz is an amazing tool. They have started crawling the web on a monthly basis and provide basic data for free and advanced information for a great price.

It seems that Google is a little nervous about letting "everyone" know how many backlinks their competitors have. However, since they've added "links" to the webmaster tools, maybe they'll start increasing the accuracy of the link: operator. After the great success of Yahoo's Site Explorer, maybe they'll have to. Only time will tell.

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1

Marc

Thanks for the tips I now know where to look. I will have to remember this info.

 

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3rb0

thank u for this nice blog with a very nice content

 

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Best Results

Can i get more visitor using SEO software ?
Thanks for your answer

Wistuo

 

4

AHFX Web Design Blog

It really depends on what SEO software you are talking about. If it is creating links for you then no it won´t help. If it is creating the pages for you with little or no creative content of your own, then no it won´t help. If it merely informs you about the things that you could do to improve (i.e. tells you how many links you have, what pages have broken links, which pages have the most link juice, etc) then yes that will help. Any time you expect an "automated" system to rank you high, the search engines will catch on and probably shut down the problem.

 

5

kevin

Thanks for sharing this information, without it I will only be guessing how many back links I have.

 

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Forum Development Blog

Great blog entry, i´m going to check out the GOogle tool first.

Thank You, subscribing, thanks. :)

 

7

Imagine Wellness

Did not know about the Yahoo site Explorer -- pretty good little tool. Thanks.

 

8

tom Schavo

Yeah, google webmastertools does have the option to show how many backlinks your site has. But is it accurate by 100?

 

9

brandon

Google backlink checker is manipulative , I got no backlink at all, when I check my blog with "link:"

 

10

Steve

Thanks for the simple explanation of where to get a accurate view of backlinks.

Cheers

Steve

 

11

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I am a newbie in the field of seo and and now i am very much inspired and have a clear vision for my future in this arena known as SEO. I think the most important thing to make it big here is "patience", if you have that you are a winner here.

 

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Great Tools

 

13

BlindMonkeyMedia

The problem with that webmaster tool is that Google always misses some or when finds some one day and skips them the next.

 

14

Reebok

Yeah u r right google is nervous about showing competitors backlinks

 

15

jizzguru

I do have the same question as BlindMonkeyMedia i.e., The problem with that webmaster tool is that Google always misses some or when finds some one day and skips them the next. what should we do to cope up with this problem

 

16

pass

I am 100 satisfied with the above post. The article is really a good one.

 

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onesource

I think is by far the best article I have read todate about back linking counters. I have never understood why googl shows my links one day and they are gone the next.

 

18

Backlink

the rulles of this article is very nice,so this article is good?
thanks for the good pos?

 

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thanks!You made some good points there. I did a search on the topic and found most people will agree with your blog.
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thankstips from your articles.

 

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Hi

thanks for sharing, great info

 

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Nice tools, work like a charm!

 

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vian

how to get free back link submision ?

 

25

nitendra

Very easy but still very trikky

 

26

RRj

I agree with your tips (yahoo site explorer google web master) many posting. Thanks.

 

27

saiany

Backlinks (or back-links [UK]) are incoming links to a website or web page. In the search engine optimization (SEO) world, the number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page (though other measures, such as PageRank, are likely to be more important). Outside of SEO, the backlinks of a webpage may be of significant personal, cultural or semantic interest: they indicate who is paying attention to that page.

In basic link terminology, a backlink is any link received by a web node (web page, directory, website, or top level domain) from another web node. Backlinks are also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links.

 

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Trabajo

If you want a free backlink with pagerank 7 follow these steps:

1.- Register in mtv.com
2.- Sign In
3.- Create a blog post in the blog section
4.- Post your link with the anchor text inside the post you create.

 

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Backlink

Thanks for sharing this post.This will help me to manage my site and to generate Backlinks,Good tips.

 

30

InfoGator

Thanks,
this information is remarkable

 

31

ainttutorial

Thank´s I already done that. Would you tell me about what the different between Yahoo link and Yahoo Link Domain? Which one is yahoo backlink? couse there is a lot of different link number on it

 

32

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Actually how many backlinks has to be created to get seen by the google and yahoo, and how does the yahoo can see my backlinks, if i create backlink whether both the google and yahoo will see my backlink or only google.

 

33

Loloy Tejano

my count says 13 still and i´ve been bookmarking my site for a hundred times already.

 

34

Nepal Trekking

thanks for sharing great idea because i always thinking how to know how many back link i have in my web site but now i know how to check

regard
Nepal Trekking

 

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CHILLAPPLE

thanks for the links provided.

 

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Berita Harian

Keep it up pal, thanks for this one, just bookmarked your blog and will come again later :)

 

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Donita

Appreciate for your tips. Thanks.

 

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tyler

great site

 

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Donita

Simple idea but I think useful. Thanks for your sharing.

 

40

Hotel Sri lanka

there are lot of back links for this site but non of them shown when i checked for the summery. why is that?

 

41

Sucessful Website Design

@hotel Google only checks those links that have enough pagerank to "count".

I´ve recently heard that Yahoo will be shutting down Yahoo Site Explorer. This comes off the wake of outsourcing it´s search results to Bing.

 

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nice post.thank you for your information

 

43

Tamon

Nice information.

 

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yahoo site explore gives complete details of inlinks thanks for such a nice tip

 

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Dude Auto Accessories

Yes. I agree to a large extent of this article´s content.

As my company webpage has no Google Page Rank, but in Yahoo!´s backlink checker, there is a lot.

This would affect my revenue quite a lot.

I hope you can give me some info on how to get Google to recheck these links.

Thank you.

 

46

instinctis

Great points you´ve posted here, thanks. Is completely true that yahoo is a great engine for checking your backlinks / InLinks (and a little more) as it seems more accurate than others when it comes to Inlinks.anyway I used to do the queries manualy untill i found this free tool: http://ministatus.com which also alows one to download the results in pdf file and also generates the free badge price for each and every queried websites.

 

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Girisoft technologies

Thanks. Nice post

 

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Thanks for the nice information blog

 

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instinctis

Nice to see these pointed out here, thank you. Backlinks are an the most important factor when it comes to ranking terms, i use to check my backlinks via http://ministatus.com , an online tool that checks for backlinks and indexed pages all at the same time (ofcourse it does it only for most popular search engines). It is possible however to do a manual check of all these values but it is just too boring.

 

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Neprinol

All Backlink checkers are inaccurate until the links have been re-indexed by Google.

 

51

Succeed Online

Neprinol,

That is incorrect. Yahoo doesn´t use Google for their numbers. Opensiteexplorer doesn´t use Google for their numbers. Because Google´s spider runs differently now, their index is constantly being updated. Webmaster tool´s will show different numbers on almost a weekly basis.

 

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vignesh

thankyou for ur great information

 

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sara

This is a great blog. thanks for this information.

 

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I would like to appreciate the efforts you have made in writing this article and i am hoping the same good work from you in the future as well.

 

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D.Sidhu

Very good tips. Thanks for sharing

 

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A Watt

Thanks great info

 

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keithy

Good to hear some one who knows what they are talking about

 

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leonard

good

 

59

Gabby

I hope this help me to know my backlink from google. Thanks for sharing. :)

 

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sandeep

it is a nice article which explains to get accurate backlink counts from Google and Yahoo

 

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lee stevenson

WOW this is some good link checker, i have been looking for something this for ages no1 in my eyes thankyou.

 

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kathi

I cant wait to use this! looks great!

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saurabh mandal

hi there,

i would like to know how to increase my backlinks.

please advice

 

64

ata

It seems Yahoo site explorer is not as accurate as it used to be. I noticed the backlinks to my site have dropped by the thousands to a measly few hundred. But when i check with another tool it shows thosands of backlinks.

 

65

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Thank you very much! Now I know where to find the backlink count

 

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great tipsi will try now:)thanks for info :)

 

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Thanks for the info, it was very helpful.

 

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thanks for your information. very nice and very informative thank you

 

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prince

this info are useful for me, thanks for posting. because sometimes I check backlink for my site show different value if from different tools

 

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I am 100 satisfied with the above post. The article is really a good one.

 

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anil

It is good article for new one like me. How about the websites which shows backlinks for your site ?

 

72

shaikh zafar

Really great blog.
I really enjoyed reading your blog.
Thanks,
Shaikh Zafar

 

73

LInda

Thanks for this informative post. This will really help me out to find accurate back links.

 

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Google Sniper 2.0

Yes, it is pretty frustrated to get different answer from different backlink checkers. Thanks for the tips.

 

75

philippines

Thanks for explaining this information. This is very userful.

 

76

logo design

Its very best for all.

 

77

polobye

how to add back link?

 

78

Cheryl

Thank you for the good post and tips on getting backlink counts. I was using Market Samurai until they stopped connecting to Yahoo Explorer.

 

79

Auto Traffic Tycoon Scam

Thank you for the post. The information is so vital for online success. Sometimes it´s the NOT knowing that is our downfall.

 

80

Top 10 Google Positions

I read on Matt Cutts´ blog if I´m not mistaken, that Google deliberately does not disclose an accurate count of backlinks due to many webmasters suffering of what was referred to as BO (Backlink Obsession).

I find Yahoo Site Explorer to be the most accurate link checker around. Open Site Explorer is also great, but due to the fact that they only update once a month, there are still some links that they do not report which Yahoo already picked up on.

So I would put Yahoo Site Explorer number one on my list and Open Site Explorer at number 2.

 

81

Singapore Wedding Videographer

No wonder I see 0 on google and 5,000 BL on yahoo. I almost thought I was banned by google

 

82

AHFX

Only the link: modifier is inaccurate. The Google Webmaster tools is quite accurate. Unfortunately Yahoo Site Explorer will be going the way of the world and will be superseded by Bing Webmaster Toolbox.

 

83

polo

Thanks for the explanation. I am satisfied with the post

 

84

force factor

This seems to work pretty well. thanks

 

85

Green Stickman

Do you have an idea on how can I have an altavista backlinks? I am having a hard to find answers on this.

Thanks.

 

86

pratyush

Thanks for the tips great post will use the stuff the information for improving my skills on internet.

 

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anggorox

thanks 4 info

 

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sonam

I want to know to get google back link,please help me?/

 

89

luxury shop online

There are many backlink checker with dissimilar results. I did´t know which one to trust

 

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Tahir Ali

do you think google webmaster services are as accurate than other services. I saw many authors writing that google services such keyword tool are not as much accurate.

 

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nafees mansoor

quite informative :)

 

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SEOsaja

Thank´s for usefull tips. I really like it

 

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SEOsaja

I don´t know how accurate google webmaster service or yahoo site explorer. Just use it and think that really useful for me.

 

94

softwares

Thanks this was very helpful for me
I knew about google but not about yahoo thanks for that
can u tell how to get backlinks from yahoo

 

95

Bangla choti

Thanks a lot for sharing this tool

 

96

latest bbcnews

Thanks very much for this i always like these types of posting i am new in the SEO. this post quite helpful for me i really appreciate your effort thanks very much.

 

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saikiran

thanks for the tipsfound very helpfull

 

98

Turkish Homes

I do not believe it possible to get an accurate list of backlinks from anywhere. I have tried may options but when I check manually, backlinks are often live even though they are not shown on reports.

 

99

Idaho Web Design

While a perfect "backlink" counter is practically impossible. What is important is what Google "sees" as backlinks. If Google and Bing can´t find the backlink or doesn´t count it, does that link really matter? From a search engine optimization standpoint, the answer is no.

 

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feathersdesigns

good stuff

 

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RadishLord

Wonderful article i am getting to adding this stuff right now!

 

102

Must have software

It´s strange, but google misses some outbound links, while other websites for backlink count see them.

 

103

fashionsunion

Thanks for info.we want get backlink from Google and Yahoo.

 

104

fashionsunion

Thanks for the info of where to get a accurate view of backlinks

 

105

Turkish Property

I am finding that currently google webmaster tools is showing the most links.

 

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srkshazu Nov 8, 2011

Nice Post and also helpful post you have made.thanks

 

107

Tony Akinson Nov 8, 2011

Nice blog,thanks for the useful information

 

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Declan Nov 11, 2011

Thanks for the tips. Im learning more everyday

 

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doni Nov 14, 2011

thank u for this nice blog with a very nice content

 

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Company Logo Design Dec 7, 2011

Thanks a lot for taking time to share such a useful stuff here with us .These are very useful for us keep it up the great work .

 

111

Daniel Dec 10, 2011

Getting an accurate Back link count can prove quite difficult. Yahoo site explorer has bit the dust, so now people are left with a mix of free(Sometimes limited access) and paid tools.

Remember that many of the backlink checking tools were using the Yahoo site Explorer data for their results. Therefore, they will not work anymore, unless they have changed over to another source.

Here are some free ones.

Backlink watch(This too is very popular though I am not sure of the accuracy).

Backlink Checker (Last time I tried this one it was not working)

Link popularity. You can compare your different pages links.

Majestic SEO. Need to sign up. This is the same Tool used by Market Samurai.

Seo Book. Offers free and paid services.

Link assistant. free(Limited results) and paid. You download the suite of four modules onto your PC(Can be slow.)

And there are many, many more.

 

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super social wahm Dec 13, 2011

This is a good tip. I am in the process of building my site and optimizing it. Super Social WAHM

 

113

Priti Dec 16, 2011

Great Help!

 

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Vijay Dec 21, 2011

Yahoo Site explorer is merged with Bing now, you can update the info. Goolge webmaster Tools show the Backlinks but not all links.

 

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abinash Dec 25, 2011

which is the technique by followed by google to count backlinks

 

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hasanain ali Dec 28, 2011

thank u for all and please visit your website above

 

117

SEO Services Jan 6, 2012

I would like to suggest for White Hat SEO or building quality backlinks through organic link building rather than using automated softwares, spamming data or any other Black Hat SEO activity.

 

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harman Jan 6, 2012

Thanks !
Finally i signed for webmasters Google :)

 

119

Pay Per Click Management Jan 7, 2012

Thank you very much for posting such nice information about baclinks.

 

120

Collectors Jan 16, 2012

Hi, I just found this by searching and it gave me an idea on how to find back links.

 

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Jeznadel Feb 3, 2012

Thanks for the tips. But i think webmaster tools srill can improve by adding no follow and do follow flag attributes identifier.

 

122

michael Feb 3, 2012

thanks for all this info.

 

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