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Link Building Tips – Use Google to See All of a Website’s Links!

Great Tips for Researching Links

Whether you want to find out exactly who is linking to your site or research your competitors’ linking strategy, here are some quick and easy tips.  Google and Yahoo! make it very simple to see links coming to and from a certain URL – you just have to know the tricks! Using these shortcuts, you can fine-tune your link-building strategy and catapult your site to the top of the major search engines.

1.  How to View All the Incoming Links to a Competitor’s Website

It is very easy to see a list of all the incoming links that are registered by the major search engines.  All you have to do is enter the term “link:” followed by the site URL directly into the search box.

 

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You can also search for links to specific pages within a domain. Don’t limit your research to only the homepage!

To find out more about if a site has a lot of high-quality sites linking to pages deep in its site, try using the same strategy for the subpages of a certain site:

 

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2.  How to View Only Incoming Links or Exclude Links Coming from Specific Domain

If you don’t want to see any internal links displayed, simply type a minus (-) symbol followed by “site:” and the homepage URL. You can use this strategy to take away the links from any site you don’t want displayed.

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Or:

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3.  How to Check Links Coming from Top Level Domains (TLDs)

It’s a good idea to filter your results according to Top Level Domain type. A Top Level Domain (or TLD) is the ending text on a URL (.com, .gov, .edu, etc.) and denotes the classification of the site. They are important to note because

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Click here for a useful List of Top Level Domains.


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