Comments on: Linkbacks

Question: Linkbacks

NekulturnY — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:22:00 -0800

Can anyone show me to a good place to check how many/which sites link to my site?

I tried using link:[mysite] on Google, but it doesn't seem very reliable. Some links of which I've known for months don't even appear, others that still exist disappear, etc.

By: Skot

Skot — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:42:12 -0800

Technorati.

By: zsazsa

zsazsa — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:47:53 -0800

You can also check referrers to your website by analyzing your site's logs. If you don't have access to them, but have PHP, you can use the program Refer to see where your visitors are coming from.

(As a side note, the HTTP header HTTP_REFERER which these tools track is hilariously misspelled in the orignal specifcation, and lives on to this day for backwards compatibility reasons)

By: falconred

falconred — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:03:37 -0800

Technorati completely stinks for my setup becuase www.falconred.net forwards to another site where the content is actually hosted. This causes technorati to think that every link on my own homepage from the hosted site to www.falconred.net is an "outside site" linking.

By: tdismukes

tdismukes — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:59:01 -0800

Both Google & Technorati only show one link to my site, but I know for a fact there are at least a half-dozen more out there. Strange, considering that the links have been out there for a while and are on pages which are indexed by Google.

By: gleuschk

gleuschk — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:13:10 -0800

Google's "link:" syntax differentiates between "example.com" and "www.example.com"; you might check to see whether those other links you know about use prefixes. I'm also not sure what it does about links to "example.com", "example.com/", and "example.com/index.html".

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:43:30 -0800

altavista seems to be better for this than google, as its "link" matches any url for the domain, i think. try using
link:my.site.com AND NOT host:my.site.com
at their search

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sat, 01 May 2004 08:40:42 -0800

This causes technorati to think that every link on my own homepage from the hosted site to www.falconred.net is an "outside site" linking.

technorati is thinking correctly. every link on the hosted site to falconred.net actually IS an outside site linking. why not hang falconred.net on your actual site, instead of using that cheesy redirection scheme? (it's rhetorical question - i know the answer is because your host doesn't do that, or wants a bundle of money to do that. i just want to drive home the point that redirection services are not the best route to go, perhaps a host who can accomodate your needs is called for.)

By: bragadocchio

bragadocchio — Sat, 01 May 2004 14:55:56 -0800

The link:[mysite] search normally only shows pages that have at least a pagerank of higher than three.

if you do a search in Google for "domainname.com" or using whatever tld is applicable, you may find the rest of them.