This is for all the newbies out there..
All the engines provide ways to view backlinks to specific domains, and all the engines differ slightly on how to make that initial request (and also differ on how accurate they are revealing true backlink numbers). Backlinks, are -of course - all links from other websites pointing to your specific website. Jim Boykin provided his favorite backlink request at SES a few weeks back, so I thought it might be helpful to list all the ways to pull this type of query from all the engines. We’ll use the domain ‘planetbnb.com’ as the example.
Google:
either ‘link:http://www.planetbnb.com’
or
‘link:www.planetbnb.com’
will successfully generated a backlink report from Google. Note: Google doesn’t list every single backlink on the web; only a small subset it seems to feel are of most value (or maybe only the ones it wants to)
Yahoo:
Yahoo seems to provide the most accurate representation if the entire universe of inbound backlinks on the web. There are really two different ways to pull this request from Yahoo - two different ways that provide two different sets of results. The first is the preferred method of Jim Boykin, and the second pulls a bit larger results due to aggregating multiple links from a single site.
‘linkdomain:planetbnb.com -site:planetbnb.com’
or
‘link:http://www.planetbnb.com’
the first seems to present the most accurate result from all the engines, and is slowly becoming my preferred method..
MSN
As of March 28, 2007, MSN pulled the plug on their backlink tool due to several consistent automated queries hammering their boxes. Once they go back online, I assume they’ll use their old method for users to make these request, but who knows.. below is their old method.
either ‘link:http://www.planetbnb.com’
or
‘link:www.planetbnb.com’
ya’ll know any more? Am I missing any?
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