expired domains and backlinks

renamecor · May 28, 2008

Hi guys, complete newbie here so be gentle !!

So I look on google for "drop list" or "expired domains" and I go the the relevant site and view the list.

I see a domain name that I like (expired domain) and I want to see if there are still any existing backlinks out there (cos I after traffic) .......

How can I find out past history on this domain and how many backlinks are still out there ??

What (free) tools or sites to you guys use ??

Can I use google (link:www.site.com) to find the backlinks cos when I put a few in it says there are none, is this because the domains are expired ??

dave9713 · May 28, 2008

Yahoo is the best indicator, just type in link:www.site.com into the search box.

Hope that helps.

Dave

Darren · May 28, 2008

Yahoo: site:domain.ext
Yahoo: site:www.domain.ext

Archive.org can provide previous history of the site.

Alexa.com will provide traffic details, backlinks and possible ranking.

renamecor · May 28, 2008

yeh, thought about archive.org to pick up the original content.

Thanks for the tips, any more ??

rjs_essex · May 29, 2008

urltrends.com will give you the following information:

PageRank
Alexa Rank
Incoming Google Links
Incoming Yahoo Links
Incoming MSN Links
Incoming Alexa Links
Overall Incoming Links
Outgoing Links
Online Since
DMOZ Listed
Archive.org Listed

However, bear in mind that they only update their stats every 6 months so pay attention to the "Last Monitored" and "Next Update" fields as they can be quite inaccurate.

Rich

purg · Jun 5, 2008

if you have hosting with cURL the following will also help. This would help the best route if you are doing bulk checks. Ive used this on many sites that return the data back into something like a database (automating lookups). Google, Yahoo, alltheweb & altavista but very easy to extend to other/all search engines in the bottom function getAllTheWebLinks($sURL) sections.

PHP:

<html>
<head>
<title>Backlinks</title>
<style type="text/css">
input
{
	border: 1px solid #000000;
	padding: 5px;
	font-weight: bold;
}
a:visited
{
	color: #0000AA;
}
a:active
{
	color: #0000AA;
}
a:hover
{
	color: #FF0000;
}
a:link
{
	color: #0000AA;
}
textarea
{
	border: 1px solid #000000;
	padding: 5px;
}
tr.r1
{
	text-align: center;
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-weight: normal;
	font-size: 11px;
	color: #000000;
	background-color: #FFFFEE;
	border: 1px #d79900 solid;
	border-collapse: collapse;
	border-spacing: 0px;
}
table.main
{
	text-align: center;
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-weight: normal;
	font-size: 12px;
	color: #000000;
	background-color: #FFFFEE;
	border: 3px #000000 solid;
	border-spacing: 1px;
}
tr.r1:hover
{
	background-color: #FFCCCC;
	font-weight: bold;
}
tr.r2
{
	text-align: center;
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-weight: normal;
	font-size: 11px;
	color: #000000;
	background-color: #EEFFFF;
	border: 1px #d79900 solid;
	border-collapse: collapse;
	border-spacing: 0px;
}
tr.r2:hover
{
	background-color: #FFCCCC;
	font-weight: bold;
}
tr.r0
{
	text-align: center;
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-weight: normal;
	font-size: 13px;
	color: #000000;
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
	border: 1px #d79900 solid;
	border-collapse: collapse;
	border-spacing: 0px;
}
tr.r3
{
	text-align: center;
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-weight: normal;
	font-size: 13px;
	color: #000000;
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
	border: 1px #d79900 solid;
	border-spacing: 0px;
}
body
{ 
background-image: 
url('http://www.expiring.org.uk/bkg.jpg');
background-repeat: repeat
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<?php 
if(!isset($_REQUEST['domain'])) //if they haven't input data yet, prompt them
{
?>
<table border="0" width="100%" height="100%">
<tr valign="MIDDLE"><td>
<form method="GET">
<center>
<table class="main">
<tr class="r3"><td><b>Backlink Finder - <a href="http://www.expiring.org.uk">expiring.org.uk</a></b><br />Input Domains to Find BackLinks For</td><tr>
<tr><td><textarea name="domain" cols="40" rows="10">
</textarea></td></tr>
<tr><td><input type="Submit" value="Lookup BackLinks"></td></tr>
</form>
</center>
</td></tr>
</table>

<? 
}
else
{
	echo "<table border=0 width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\"><tr valign=\"MIDDLE\"><td><center><table border=2>";
	echo "<tr class=\"r3\"><td colspan=\"5\"><center><b>Backlink Finder</center></td></tr>";
	echo "<tr class=\"r0\"><td><b>Domain</b></td><td><b>Yahoo Links</b></td><td><b>Google Links</b></td><td><b>AltaVista Links</b></td><td><b>AllTheWeb Links</b></td></tr>";
	$urls=explode("\n",str_replace("www.","",str_replace("http://","", str_replace("\r","",trim($_REQUEST['domain'])))));
	for($i=0; $i<sizeof($urls); $i++)
	{
		echo "<tr class=\"r1\"><td><b>$urls[$i]</b></td><td>".getYahooLinks($urls[$i])."</td><td>".getGoogleLinks($urls[$i])."</td><td>".getAltavistaLinks($urls[$i])."</td><td>".getAllTheWebLinks($urls[$i])."</td></tr>";
		echo "<tr class=\"r2\"><td><b>www.$urls[$i]</b></td><td>".getYahooLinks("www.".$urls[$i])."</td><td>".getGoogleLinks("www.".$urls[$i])."</td><td>".getAltavistaLinks("www.".$urls[$i])."</td><td>".getAllTheWebLinks("www.".$urls[$i])."</td></tr>";
	}
	echo "</center></table></td></tr>";
	echo "</table>";
}
function getYahooLinks($sURL)
{
	$url="https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch?p=http%3A%2F%2F".urlencode($sURL)."&bwm=i&bwmo=d&bwmf=u";
	$useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1";
	$ch = curl_init($url);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER  ,1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "./cookie-jar.txt");
	curl_setopt($ch, curlOPT_COOKIEFILE, "./cookie-jar.txt");
//	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION  ,1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, 0);
	$data=curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);
	$spl=explode("</strong> of about <strong>",$data);
	$spl2=explode("</strong>",$spl[1]);
	$ret=trim($spl2[0]);
	if(strlen($ret)==0)
	{
		return(0);
	}
	else
	{
		return($ret);
	}
	
}
function getGoogleLinks($sURL)
{
	$url="http://www.google.com/search?num=10&hl=en&safe=off&q=link%3A$sURL&btnG=Search";
	$useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1";
	$ch = curl_init($url);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER  ,1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "./cookie-jar.txt");
	curl_setopt($ch, curlOPT_COOKIEFILE, "./cookie-jar.txt");
//	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION  ,1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, 0);
	$data=curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);
	$data=str_replace("of about","of",$data);
	$spl=explode("</b> of <b>",$data);
	$spl2=explode("</b>",$spl[1]);
	$ret=trim($spl2[0]);
	if(strlen($ret)==0)
	{
		return(0);
	}
	else
	{
		return($ret);
	}
	
}
function getAltavistaLinks($sURL)
{
	$url="http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=link%3A$sURL&kgs=0&kls=0";
	$useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1";
	$ch = curl_init($url);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER  ,1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "./cookie-jar.txt");
	curl_setopt($ch, curlOPT_COOKIEFILE, "./cookie-jar.txt");
//	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION  ,1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, 0);
	$data=curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);
	$spl=explode("AltaVista found ",$data);
	$spl2=explode(" results",$spl[1]);
	$ret=trim($spl2[0]);
	if(strlen($ret)==0)
	{
		return(0);
	}
	else
	{
		return($ret);
	}
	
}
function getAllTheWebLinks($sURL)
{
	$url="http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=web&cs=utf-8&q=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2F$sURL&_sb_lang=any";
	$useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1";
	$ch = curl_init($url);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER  ,1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "./cookie-jar.txt");
	curl_setopt($ch, curlOPT_COOKIEFILE, "./cookie-jar.txt");
//	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION  ,1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, 0);
	$data=curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);
	$spl=explode("</span> of <span class=\"ofSoMany\">",$data);
	$spl2=explode("</span>",$spl[1]);
	$ret=trim($spl2[0]);
	if(strlen($ret)==0)
	{
		return(0);
	}
	else
	{
		return($ret);
	}
	
}
?>
</body>
</html>

Admin · Jun 5, 2008

thanks for the code Purg, awesome!

vaengr · Sep 5, 2008

Added DMOZ column

Many thanks for the code - but have modified it a little to show if the domain is listed in DMOZ - seems to work OK but really not usually very good at this stuff.

PHP:

<html>
<head>
<title>Backlinks</title>
<style type="text/css">
input
{
    border: 1px solid #000000;
    padding: 5px;
    font-weight: bold;
}
a:visited
{
    color: #0000AA;
}
a:active
{
    color: #0000AA;
}
a:hover
{
    color: #FF0000;
}
a:link
{
    color: #0000AA;
}
textarea
{
    border: 1px solid #000000;
    padding: 5px;
}
tr.r1
{
    text-align: center;
    font-family: Verdana;
    font-weight: normal;
    font-size: 11px;
    color: #000000;
    background-color: #FFFFEE;
    border: 1px #d79900 solid;
    border-collapse: collapse;
    border-spacing: 0px;
}
table.main
{
    text-align: center;
    font-family: Verdana;
    font-weight: normal;
    font-size: 12px;
    color: #000000;
    background-color: #FFFFEE;
    border: 3px #000000 solid;
    border-spacing: 1px;
}
tr.r1:hover
{
    background-color: #FFCCCC;
    font-weight: bold;
}
tr.r2
{
    text-align: center;
    font-family: Verdana;
    font-weight: normal;
    font-size: 11px;
    color: #000000;
    background-color: #EEFFFF;
    border: 1px #d79900 solid;
    border-collapse: collapse;
    border-spacing: 0px;
}
tr.r2:hover
{
    background-color: #FFCCCC;
    font-weight: bold;
}
tr.r0
{
    text-align: center;
    font-family: Verdana;
    font-weight: normal;
    font-size: 13px;
    color: #000000;
    background-color: #FFFFFF;
    border: 1px #d79900 solid;
    border-collapse: collapse;
    border-spacing: 0px;
}
tr.r3
{
    text-align: center;
    font-family: Verdana;
    font-weight: normal;
    font-size: 13px;
    color: #000000;
    background-color: #FFFFFF;
    border: 1px #d79900 solid;
    border-spacing: 0px;
}
body
{ 
background-image: 
url('http://www.expiring.org.uk/bkg.jpg');
background-repeat: repeat
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<?php 
if(!isset($_REQUEST['domain'])) //if they haven't input data yet, prompt them
{
?>
<table border="0" width="100%" height="100%">
<tr valign="MIDDLE"><td>
<form method="GET">
<center>
<table class="main">
<tr class="r3"><td><b>Backlink Finder - <a href="http://www.expiring.org.uk">expiring.org.uk</a></b><br />Input Domains to Find BackLinks For</td><tr>
<tr><td><textarea name="domain" cols="40" rows="10">
</textarea></td></tr>
<tr><td><input type="Submit" value="Lookup BackLinks"></td></tr>
</form>
</center>
</td></tr>
</table>

<? 
}
else
{
    echo "<table border=0 width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\"><tr valign=\"MIDDLE\"><td><center><table border=2>";
    echo "<tr class=\"r3\"><td colspan=\"5\"><center><b>Backlink Finder</center></td></tr>";
    echo "<tr class=\"r0\"><td><b>Domain</b></td><td><b>DMOZ</b></td><td><b>Yahoo Links</b></td><td><b>Google Links</b></td><td><b>AltaVista Links</b></td><td><b>AllTheWeb Links</b></td></tr>";
    $urls=explode("\n",str_replace("www.","",str_replace("http://","", str_replace("\r","",trim($_REQUEST['domain'])))));
    for($i=0; $i<sizeof($urls); $i++)
    {
        echo "<tr class=\"r1\"><td><b>$urls[$i]</b></td><td>" . dmoz_listed($urls[$i]) . "</td><td>" . getYahooLinks($urls[$i])."</td><td>".getGoogleLinks($urls[$i])."</td><td>".getAltavistaLinks($urls[$i])."</td><td>".getAllTheWebLinks($urls[$i])."</td></tr>";
        echo "<tr class=\"r2\"><td><b>www.$urls[$i]</b></td><td>" . dmoz_listed($urls[$i]) . "</td><td>" . getYahooLinks("www.".$urls[$i])."</td><td>".getGoogleLinks("www.".$urls[$i])."</td><td>".getAltavistaLinks("www.".$urls[$i])."</td><td>".getAllTheWebLinks("www.".$urls[$i])."</td></tr>";
    }
    echo "</center></table></td></tr>";
    echo "</table>";
}
function getYahooLinks($sURL)
{
    $url="https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch?p=http%3A%2F%2F".urlencode($sURL)."&bwm=i&bwmo=d&bwmf=u";
    $useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1";
    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER  ,1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "./cookie-jar.txt");
    curl_setopt($ch, curlOPT_COOKIEFILE, "./cookie-jar.txt");
//    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION  ,1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, 0);
    $data=curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    $spl=explode("</strong> of about <strong>",$data);
    $spl2=explode("</strong>",$spl[1]);
    $ret=trim($spl2[0]);
    if(strlen($ret)==0)
    {
        return(0);
    }
    else
    {
        return($ret);
    }
    
}
function getGoogleLinks($sURL)
{
    $url="http://www.google.com/search?num=10&hl=en&safe=off&q=link%3A$sURL&btnG=Search";
    $useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1";
    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER  ,1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "./cookie-jar.txt");
    curl_setopt($ch, curlOPT_COOKIEFILE, "./cookie-jar.txt");
//    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION  ,1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, 0);
    $data=curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    $data=str_replace("of about","of",$data);
    $spl=explode("</b> of <b>",$data);
    $spl2=explode("</b>",$spl[1]);
    $ret=trim($spl2[0]);
    if(strlen($ret)==0)
    {
        return(0);
    }
    else
    {
        return($ret);
    }
    
}
function getAltavistaLinks($sURL)
{
    $url="http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=link%3A$sURL&kgs=0&kls=0";
    $useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1";
    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER  ,1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "./cookie-jar.txt");
    curl_setopt($ch, curlOPT_COOKIEFILE, "./cookie-jar.txt");
//    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION  ,1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, 0);
    $data=curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    $spl=explode("AltaVista found ",$data);
    $spl2=explode(" results",$spl[1]);
    $ret=trim($spl2[0]);
    if(strlen($ret)==0)
    {
        return(0);
    }
    else
    {
        return($ret);
    }
    
}
function getAllTheWebLinks($sURL)
{
    $url="http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=web&cs=utf-8&q=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2F$sURL&_sb_lang=any";
    $useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1";
    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER  ,1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "./cookie-jar.txt");
    curl_setopt($ch, curlOPT_COOKIEFILE, "./cookie-jar.txt");
//    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION  ,1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, 0);
    $data=curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    $spl=explode("</span> of <span class=\"ofSoMany\">",$data);
    $spl2=explode("</span>",$spl[1]);
    $ret=trim($spl2[0]);
    if(strlen($ret)==0)
    {
        return(0);
    }
    else
    {
        return($ret);
    }
    
}
//function to check whether an url is listed in DMOZ(ODP), return 1 or 0
function dmoz_listed($sURL)
{
    $url="http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=$sURL";
    $useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1";
    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER  ,1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "./cookie-jar.txt");
    curl_setopt($ch, curlOPT_COOKIEFILE, "./cookie-jar.txt");
//    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION  ,1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, 0);
    $data=curl_exec($ch);
	$pos=strpos($data, 'match');
    if ($pos==0) {

        return(No);
    }
    else
    {
        return(Yes);
    }
}
?>
</body>
</html>

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