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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.
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.

 

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tom Schavo

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

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

 

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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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paintball sevilla

Great Tools

 

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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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Buy Backlinks

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

 

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Great Blogging!!
Keep Your Good Work Going!!

 

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thankstips from your articles.

 

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webhost18

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.

 

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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.

 

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InfoGator

Thanks,
this information is remarkable

 

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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

 

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adult costumes

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

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

 

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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.

 

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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?

 

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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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ptc dari hp

nice post.thank you for your information

 

43

Tamon

Nice information.

 

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seo for blogger-money from blogging

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.

 

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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 Jul 7, 2010

Thanks. Nice post

 

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London Paris Train Jul 22, 2010

Thanks for the nice information blog

 

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instinctis Jul 23, 2010

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 Aug 1, 2010

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

 

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Succeed Online Aug 2, 2010

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 Aug 11, 2010

thankyou for ur great information

 

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sara Aug 18, 2010

This is a great blog. thanks for this information.

 

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Affordable Seo Service Aug 21, 2010

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 Aug 27, 2010

Very good tips. Thanks for sharing

 

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A Watt Aug 29, 2010

Thanks great info