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04-Nov-2007, 02:52 PM #1
Question Who is linking to my site???
Does anyone know of a free service that will show you who is linking to your site? Google claims to have this - using link:domainname - but it does not return any info for my domain.

Any sites that offer a service like that would be very helpful.
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05-Nov-2007, 08:00 AM #2
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Does anyone know of a free service that will show you who is linking to your site? Google claims to have this - using link:domainname - but it does not return any info for my domain.
Than nobody is linking to your domain...

Its not very accurate but it works somewhat.
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05-Nov-2007, 08:30 AM #3
Does your hosting provide some type of statistics, most do. They run off the server logs and will show the referrers.
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05-Nov-2007, 08:38 AM #4
Well that is not true - I have seen other links on other sites that point right to us - so the fact that it does not return anything is off for some reason.
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05-Nov-2007, 08:43 AM #5
You are right, googles link:site.com only includes links pointed directly at the domain. So a link to site.com would show, but a link to site.com/greatpage.html would not. It also only shoes the links from sites it has crawled, those that haven't been crawled or have been banned would not show up.

I think your best bet is to get some type of website statistics and watch the referrers.
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05-Nov-2007, 11:36 AM #6
I thought it was only links that Google followed were in link:example.com

For example, Google may have not seen www.domain.com/page.htm which links to www.example.com/. In this case, www.domain.com/page.htm would not appear in link:example.com

Google also follows pages out of your site, and your pages can be indexed this way even if no-one links to you.
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05-Nov-2007, 04:04 PM #7
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Does your hosting provide some type of statistics, most do.
I second this.

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