We now know how important inbound links are. So how do we check who has
a link to your site? Major search engines have a simple solution.
Google, MSN Search and Yahoo! all provide us with a link-check operator.
If you want to check how many web sites that are indexed on Yahoo! have a link
to your commercial site, you simply type 'link:http://www.your domain.com' or
'link:http://sub domain.domain.com.'
For example, if you want to know who has a link to Apple's domain, you just type
'link:http://www.apple.com.' There are another two useful commands: 'site
and url.' For more information, go to Yahoo!
Help > Search Help > Search Basics.
Similarly, you can do the same for MSN Search.
If you want to check how many web sites that are indexed on MSN Search have a
link to your commercial site, for example, you type link:www.domain.com.
Go to 'Troubleshoot
Issues with MSNBot and site crawling' for more information.
Furthermore, Google also provides us with the same operator.
So you can type link:www.domain.com for a commercial domain.
If you have Google Toolbar on your browser, you can actually
find out how Google ranks your web site. Google Toolbar shows a numerical
value between 0 and 10 (0 is the lowest, 10 being the highest) to rank the importance
of a site. If you check how Google's competitor, Yahoo!, is ranked, you
may find out that it's not totally important for them. (It was 8 the day
before - July 25, 2005.)
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