Small Business Design Resources

How to Check Who’s Linking to your Web Site (Part 1)

We’re all heard that link building drives your SEO through the roof, right. But haven’t you ever wonder where those links are coming from? What sites give you the most backlinks? Well, it’s actually really easy to find out who’s linking to your site. It’s not 100% accurate, but at least it gives you an idea.

So let’s start with Google.

1. Go to www.google.com
2. In Google’s search box enter link: followed by your web site address and hit search.
For example: link:www.example.com
That’s it. Now you will see everyone who’s linking to your site come up in the search.

If your web site is fairly new and doesn’t get a lot of hits, you might not see any result come up from your search. Give it a try using Yahoo!

1. Go to www.yahoo.com
2. In Yahoo’s search box enter linkdomain: followed by your web site address and hit web search.
For example: linkdomain:www.example.com
That’s it. Now you will see everyone who’s linking to your site come up in the search.

The great thing about Yahoo!, is that it gives you more advanced options.
• If you would like to see the links that go directly to your homepage and not any other page, just select Except from this domain to Only this URL on the Show links pull down options.
• If you would like to see other sites that link to any page on your site, just select Except from this domain to Entire Site in the Show links pull down options.