Accurate Backlink Counter for Google and Yahoo
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Posted on Apr 04, 2007
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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.
- 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.
- 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.
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"Accurate Backlink Counter for Google and Yahoo"
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3rb0 Jun 1, 2007
thank u for this nice blog with a very nice content
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Best Results Nov 22, 2007
Can i get more visitor using SEO software ?
Thanks for your answer
Wistuo
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AHFX Web Design Blog Nov 24, 2007
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.
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kevin Feb 11, 2008
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 Apr 16, 2008
Great blog entry, i´m going to check out the GOogle tool first.
Thank You, subscribing, thanks. :)
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Imagine Wellness Sep 1, 2008
Did not know about the Yahoo site Explorer -- pretty good little tool. Thanks.
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tom Schavo Sep 20, 2008
Yeah, google webmastertools does have the option to show how many backlinks your site has. But is it accurate by 100?
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brandon Sep 24, 2008
Google backlink checker is manipulative , I got no backlink at all, when I check my blog with "link:"
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Steve Oct 22, 2008
Thanks for the simple explanation of where to get a accurate view of backlinks.
Cheers
Steve
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paintball sevilla Mar 14, 2009
Great Tools
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BlindMonkeyMedia Mar 23, 2009
The problem with that webmaster tool is that Google always misses some or when finds some one day and skips them the next.
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Reebok Apr 4, 2009
Yeah u r right google is nervous about showing competitors backlinks
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jizzguru Apr 4, 2009
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
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pass Apr 30, 2009
I am 100 satisfied with the above post. The article is really a good one.
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onesource May 2, 2009
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.
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Backlink Jun 21, 2009
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Buy Backlinks Jun 23, 2009
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Hi
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Web design Finland Jul 10, 2009
Nice tools, work like a charm!
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vian Jul 15, 2009
how to get free back link submision ?
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nitendra Jul 16, 2009
Very easy but still very trikky
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RRj Jul 24, 2009
I agree with your tips (yahoo site explorer google web master) many posting. Thanks.
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saiany Jul 30, 2009
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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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 Sep 1, 2009
Thanks for sharing this post.This will help me to manage my site and to generate Backlinks,Good tips.
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InfoGator Sep 5, 2009
Thanks,
this information is remarkable
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ainttutorial Sep 23, 2009
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
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adult costumes Sep 26, 2009
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.
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Loloy Tejano Oct 17, 2009
my count says 13 still and i´ve been bookmarking my site for a hundred times already.
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Nepal Trekking Nov 19, 2009
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 Nov 19, 2009
thanks for the links provided.
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Berita Harian Nov 19, 2009
Keep it up pal, thanks for this one, just bookmarked your blog and will come again later :)
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Donita Dec 4, 2009
Appreciate for your tips. Thanks.
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tyler Dec 12, 2009
great site
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Donita Jan 5, 2010
Simple idea but I think useful. Thanks for your sharing.
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Hotel Sri lanka Jan 5, 2010
there are lot of back links for this site but non of them shown when i checked for the summery. why is that?
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Sucessful Website Design Jan 6, 2010
@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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ptc dari hp Jan 13, 2010
nice post.thank you for your information
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Tamon Feb 15, 2010
Nice information.
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seo for blogger-money from blogging Mar 9, 2010
yahoo site explore gives complete details of inlinks thanks for such a nice tip
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Marc May 24, 2007
Thanks for the tips I now know where to look. I will have to remember this info.