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How to check back links with URLs?
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Madhu
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The LINK: operator at Google is pretty much worthless. It typically provides a VERY small sample of your back links, if any.
Google Webmaster Tools will provide a slightly larger sample of your back links for some of your URLs. But again it is typically a small sample.
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It should be noted that BOTH the LINK: operator AND Google WMT will display in their samples NOFOLLOW links as well as links from URLs known to be under penalty, neither of which help your rankings at Google.
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Yahoo! Site Explorer shows a fairly exhastive list of your site's back links. But it too is a sample and includes NOFOLLOW links. You can get to it by using the SITE: or LINK: operators at Yahoo!
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It should be noted that these are a sample of the links that Yahoo! knows about. Of course, if Yahoo! knows about it then Google likely about most of the same ones as well since they tend to crawl and index more of the web than Yahoo! ever has. But it's a great sample to use.
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Most tools like backlinkwatch.com and SEOQuake utilize the LINK: operator at the various engines. Backlinkwatch.com I'm pretty sure just consolidates the list that comes from the LINK: output at all of the major engines.
SEOmoz.org offers a product to paid members to do back link research based on their own crawler, but I think the sample size is relatively small.
That being said... Yahoo! Site Explorer is probably the best single source of back links.
How to check back links with URLs?
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