[MeinDCIC]

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.

[MMJ]

Originally Posted by MeinDCIC

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.

[Fyzbo]

Does your hosting provide some type of statistics, most do. They run off the server logs and will show the referrers.

[MeinDCIC]

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.

[Fyzbo]

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.

[cowplopmorris]

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.

[tomdkat]

Originally Posted by Fyzbo

Does your hosting provide some type of statistics, most do.

I second this.

Peace...