Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Is there any way to find who is linked to my website besides using link:?

With my company's website, Google isn't seeing us at all, and MSN sees us in the search engine, but doesn't see some of the sites that are linked to us. I've tried the link:www(website name).com. Any ideas?

Is there any way to find who is linked to my website besides using link:?
The most likely sites to send people to yours are the big search engines.





So the first thing to do is do the 'link:' thing at Yahoo!, Google, MSN.





Then, if you want to see who has been sending you visitors, you can check in the access logs for the webserver your site is running on.





For this to be viable, the webserver needs to storing the value of HTTP_REFERER. Then you can check the logs for those values.


That'll tell you what links users clicked on to visit your site.





Maybe that's not quite what you had in mind, but that's the only other way I know.





Just remember, you can't tell who is linked to you until they actually utilise that link (i.e. click on it).





Until then it won't show up anywhere.


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