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Accurate Backlink Counter for Google and Yahoo
Website Design Blog > Search Engine Optimization Tips
April 04, 2007
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.
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.Technorati Tags: Backlinks, Google, Yahoo, SEO
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"Accurate Backlink Counter for Google and Yahoo"
made this comment on September 01, 2008
Did not know about the Yahoo site Explorer -- pretty good little tool. Thanks.
made this comment on April 16, 2008
Great blog entry, i´m going to check out the GOogle tool first.
Thank You, subscribing, thanks. :)
made this comment on February 11, 2008
Thanks for sharing this information, without it I will only be guessing how many back links I have.
made this comment on November 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.
made this comment on November 22, 2007
Can i get more visitor using SEO software ?
Thanks for your answer
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made this comment on June 01, 2007
thank u for this nice blog with a very nice content
made this comment on May 24, 2007
Thanks for the tips I now know where to look. I will have to remember this info.
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