Tech Tip: Find Out Who Links to Your Site
Google and Yahoo! all have keywords that let you find out who is linking to a page or site.
Google
Google uses the keyword link. For example, link:http://www.techno.la returns all of the sites that link to the page at http://www.techno.la.
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Yahoo!
Yahoo! uses the keywords link and linkdomain. Use link to find all of the pages that link to another page. For example, link:http://www.techno.la returns all of the pages that link to the page at http://www.techno.la.
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Use linkdomain to find all of the sites that link to a domain. For example, linkdomain:www.techno.la returns all of the pages that link to any page that begins with www.techno.la.
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| Yahoo! linkdomain |
linkdomain would return pages that link to http://www.techno.la as well as http://www.techno.la/2009/04/articles/softwareappstools/pbwiki-launches-legal-edition.
In addition to satisfying your curiousity, you can use this tool to evaluate how well your outreach has worked or to find out if an organization thinks your site is helpful.
Is the method you describe still valid with Google and Yahoo?
I did a copy and paste link:http://www.techno.la. Results not as advertised.
I just saw your comment about the Google and Yahoo results about finding out who links to your site not working for you.
>Is the method you describe still valid with Google and Yahoo?
>I did a copy and paste link:http://www.techno.la. Results not as advertised.
I tried it and didn't seem have to problems. Could you tell me what problem you identified?