Rose DesRochers
When reading about search engine optimization, page rank and getting more traffic to your blog, you may have come across the term backlinks. Backlinks also known as inbound links and incoming links are links from other websites to your site.
Having backlinks is vital to your blog, as it helps increase its popularity. There are many means available to check your incoming links.
One method of checking for incoming links is to
use link popularity services such as
Link Popularity and
Marketleap.
Keep in mind that unlike Yahoo and MSN, Google does not always display all your
backlinks.
Technorati -Another method for finding what blogs are linking
to you is to check Technorati. To check your links on Technorati use the
following method http://www.technorati.com/search/ yourblogtitle.com.
Technorati states that they attempt to index full content from blogs. If they
cannot find a full content, they index the HTML on the front page. Any content
that can't be found in either of these places does not get indexed currently. So
if a blog’s RSS feed is not set to “full”, then it is possible that not all
backlinks will show in Technorati.
Google Blogsearch- blogsearch.google.com is another place to
check for new incoming links to your blog. Google blog search allows you to
search via a specific timeframe, such as blogs linking in within the last hour,
12 hours, one week or months. Google Blogsearch allows you to subscribe to the
results via RSS feed so you’ll be updated whenever a new site links to your blog.
Ask.com Blog Search - Ask.com unique algorithm combines Ask.com
search and Bloglines subscription data. Searches can be conducted by “posts”,
“feeds” or “news”. Advanced search features are available. http://www.ask.com/?tool=bls
Icerocket Blog Search- icerocket.com is a blog search engine
like Google Blog Search. Icerocket Blog Search lets you track links from other
blogs to your posts. To check your links at Icerocket type this query into the
search field link: yourblogtitle.com.
Backlinkwatch- backlinkwatch.com provides an all-in-one service
to check your backlinks. The service reports backlinks along with their PR,
anchor text and if it’s a nofollow or follow backlink.
PopUri - popuri.us is an online tool which checks the link
popularity of any site based on its ranking.
Google offers Google
Webmaster Tools, which also shows the number of incoming links for your
website and Blog Pulse Search
reports daily incoming links to your blog as well.
Check your incoming links through these various methods to get a wider scope of
just who is linking to your blog.
Rose DesRochers is the founder of
Today’s Woman Writing Community, a supportive online writing
community for men and women over 18. Rose is also the founder of
Blogger Talk Blog Community, a friendly fast growing blogging portal,
offering bloggers support, advice, tools, tips and information about blogs and
blogging. Visit her blog at
Rose DesRochers- World Outside my Window
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