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[PaullasPaullas is verified member.]

does anyone know how you find out what linked sites a competitor has. I am wanting to know exacly how many sites certain sites and have and where they are coming from.

 

[aZooZaaZooZa is verified member.]

Like this I think Paul?

In Google:

link:domain. com (remove the space).

 

[PaullasPaullas is verified member.]

hahah i was using

link; url . co.uk

no wonder i was getting weird results

 

[ratboy]

Its not very exact, but you can then go through and try and get links from those same pages which is useful.

 

[MattUK]

Don't use a Google link query to find competitor backlinks, they only display a very small selection, Yahoo Site Explorer is far more comprehensive,

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites

For example, AD returns 191 links in Google,

link:http://www.acorndomains.co.uk - Google Search

In Yahoo you can see 85,000

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http://www.acorndomains.co.uk&bwm=i&bwmo=d&bwmf=s

You're only able to export the first 1,000 results, if you need more there are paid services like SEOMoz Linkscape and Majestic SEO

 

[aZooZaaZooZa is verified member.]

Don't use a Google link query to find competitor backlinks, they only display a very small selection, Yahoo Site Explorer is far more comprehensive,

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites

For example, AD returns 191 links in Google,

link:http://www.acorndomains.co.uk - Google Search

In Yahoo you can see 85,000

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http://www.acorndomains.co.uk&bwm=i&bwmo=d&bwmf=s

You're only able to export the first 1,000 results, if you need more there are paid services like SEOMoz Linkscape and Majestic SEO

Very useful -- thanks! Rep given.

 

[Tricky1]

Just started using SEO for Firefox Extension: Free SEO Toolbar Firefox Browser Plugin

Everytime you search it shows you all the links, age, pagerank, twitter links etc. well just counted 31 sources of info per listing, can be turned on and off.

Free to use, try it, you might like it..

 

[dougs]

links

seo spy glass
majestic seo

both tools give you lots more data and niether are expensive

If you want to trade any links in any sector then PM me

doug

 

[ddwebguru]

Better to search in yahoo with this:

linkdomain: site url but do not forget to choose the option "Except from this domain". You will be able to form a fair concept about the inbound links to your website.

 

[kkkrisss]

Google backlink checkers. You should get a few web based tools