When reading about search engine optimization, page rank and getting more traffic to your blog, you may have come across the term backlinks. Backlinks also known as inbound links and incoming links are links from other websites to your site.
Having backlinks is vital to your blog, as it helps increase its popularity. There are many means available to check your incoming links.
One method of checking for incoming links is to use link popularity services such as Link Popularity and Marketleap.
Keep in mind that unlike Yahoo and MSN, Google does not always display all your backlinks.
Technorati -Another method for finding what blogs are linking to you is to check Technorati. To check your links on Technorati use the following method http://www.technorati.com/search/ yourblogtitle.com.
Technorati states that they attempt to index full content from blogs. If they cannot find a full content, they index the HTML on the front page. Any content that can’t be found in either of these places does not get indexed currently. So if a blog’s RSS feed is not set to “full”, then it is possible that not all backlinks will show in Technorati.
Google Blogsearch- blogsearch.google.com is another place to check for new incoming links to your blog. Google blog search allows you to search via a specific timeframe, such as blogs linking in within the last hour, 12 hours, one week or months. Google Blogsearch allows you to subscribe to the results via RSS feed so you’ll be updated whenever a new site links to your blog.
Ask.com Blog Search – Ask.com unique algorithm combines Ask.com search and Bloglines subscription data. Searches can be conducted by “posts”, “feeds” or “news”. Advanced search features are available. http://www.ask.com/?tool=bls
Icerocket Blog Search- icerocket.com is a blog search engine like Google Blog Search. Icerocket Blog Search lets you track links from other blogs to your posts. To check your links at Icerocket type this query into the search field link: yourblogtitle.com.
Backlinkwatch- backlinkwatch.com provides an all-in-one service to check your backlinks. The service reports backlinks along with their PR, anchor text and if it’s a nofollow or follow backlink.
PopUri – popuri.us is an online tool which checks the link popularity of any site based on its ranking.
Google offers Google Webmaster Tools, which also shows the number of incoming links for your website and Blog Pulse Search reports daily incoming links to your blog as well.
Check your incoming links through these various methods to get a wider scope of just who is linking to your blog.
Rose DesRochers is the founder of Today’s Woman Writing Community, a supportive online writing community for men and women over 18. Rose is also the founder of Blogger Talk Blog Community, a friendly fast growing blogging portal, offering bloggers support, advice, tools, tips and information about blogs and blogging. Visit her blog at Rose DesRochers- World Outside my Window
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Wrote: Aug 5, 2007 at 5:18 am
So much great info here Rose!
Thanks for compiling it, and thanks for stopping by my place and commenting
Wrote: Aug 5, 2007 at 7:21 am
I’ve got your email and want again to tell you this is a great post, useful and handy. Thanks!
Wrote: Aug 5, 2007 at 8:11 am
In the admin of wordpress it lists “incoming links” do you know if that is a built-in function or does it pull from Technorati or other service? That’s the one I use.
Wrote: Aug 5, 2007 at 9:32 am
Thanks for the info! always learn something when I come here.
Wrote: Aug 5, 2007 at 3:00 pm
I link to your blog.
Wrote: Aug 5, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Thank you sognatrice.
Damien in your dashboard it shows incoming links from Technorati.
Bob, my pleasure.
Tom thank you for commenting again. Sorry for the trouble and thanks for the link love.
Butterfly, why thank you.
Wrote: Aug 7, 2007 at 11:14 pm
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Wrote: Aug 7, 2007 at 11:54 pm
I had no idea there were so many different resources you could use. I’ve been using Technorati and I’m pretty happy with it, but I may have to check out the others.
Came here via the post at ProBlogger. I’ve got a tip there and thought I should check out my company. I’ve been really enjoying all the tips so far.
Wrote: Aug 8, 2007 at 12:46 am
The thing with just using one service is that it may not report back all the sites linking to you.
Wrote: Aug 11, 2007 at 10:45 am
Very useful list here… I’m curious what kind of useful information I can get from these sites. Thank you
Wrote: Aug 12, 2007 at 5:51 pm
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Wrote: Aug 12, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Great list, Rose. Thanks for the research!
Wrote: Aug 13, 2007 at 6:08 am
Hi Rose,
I wasn’t aware of a few of those, particularly how ask.com allows searching by posts. I’ll have to give it a shot. Thanks.
Wrote: Aug 13, 2007 at 8:00 am
Informative, precise and helpful.
Thnx
Wrote: Aug 13, 2007 at 9:59 am
Great list. I have actually been wondering as of lately how to check this. Thanks.
Wrote: Aug 13, 2007 at 7:18 pm
Nice list of sites, I haven’t ever heard of several of these.
Wrote: Aug 13, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Thanks everyone.
Wrote: Aug 14, 2007 at 12:06 am
Great article Rose. And some excellent tracking tips. Thanks.
Wrote: Sep 2, 2007 at 12:10 pm
I use Google Analytics to track my traffic, referring sites, and search engine keywords.
Wrote: Sep 2, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Matt, you should use a variety of methods as one service does not track all your incoming links.
Wrote: Sep 3, 2007 at 6:04 am
Thanks for the tip Rose.
I just took a look at the technorati profile of my blog and it has some great info like recent posts and other blogs that link to it. This will be really useful as my blog (hopefully) grows in popularity
Wrote: Mar 19, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Eye opening indeed. Not sure why Google is not showing any links to my site while Yahoo is showing about 24 links. Did I do something wrong?