Do You Know Who You're Linking To? - IMS #123


Want to see who your main competitors are linking to? How about finding some new linking partners. Try out MSN's Link From Domain tool.

Just go to MSN Live Search ==> http://www.live.com and type this command:

linkfromdomain:yoursite.com

(Leave out the www in front of the domain name and replace yoursite.com with the domain name you want to check.)

Use it to check your Wordpress sites, especially if you bought templates from a stranger or found them around the web. They might be cracked and letting a spammer inside. Some people have found hundreds of unauthorized outbound links.

It's also handy for finding link rot... sites that you linked to in the past, that are now out of business. Worse yet, they went out of business, let the domain name expire, and it was picked up by an... ahem, "industry" that you wouldn't normally link to.

Oh, one more thing. You can sorta use it to check for reciprocal links. Just add in a secondary bit of text on the same search query like this:

linkfromdomain:yoursite.com site:othersite.com

Try both commands at MSN's www.live.com and you may be in for a surprise or two.

Posted: Sun - May 13, 2007 at 02:42 PM          





©