The days of tweaking text on your homepage to guarantee a good result on google have gone. People linking back to your site are 70% of the reasons that google will put you high in the search engines.

But how do you  find out who’s linking to you?

In an unusual twist from our normal love of google its Yahoo that does the better job of helping you out on this one.

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  1. Go to Yahoo
  2. In the search box type  link:www. yoursite.com (substituting yoursite.com for your actual site)
  3. Yahoo site explorer tells you who is linking back to you.

But don’t stop there!

Try the same search with your competitors who get better rankings than you. This will give you an idea of places that you could contact to arrange links on there pages too.

2 Responses to “How do I know who is linking back to me?”

  1. Nick 01. Jun, 2009 at 8:43 pm #

    When I tried link:www.potn.com it said “link is not a registered protocol.”

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    • Simon Morton 02. Jun, 2009 at 1:12 pm #

      link://www.potn.com should give you this

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