 Yahoo Backlink Checking Strategies
As we all know yahoo is the 2nd
best search engine out there,their crawler is next
to Google's crawler in actively crawling and indexing
sites, let us look into link checking
with yahoo. Yahoo Slurp (yahoo
crawler) though active wont crawl as deeply
into a site as googlebot (
google's crawler). So they miss a lot of
links pages which are created specifically for link
exchange purposes,
So even if yahoo is not evil in
displaying random sampling of backlinks they dont
show the backlinks from all the sites due to the
lack of deep crawls.
Ok here are some typical ways to
check backlinks in yahoo.There are 2 backlink checking
commands in yahoo. One is the link:command
and the other is the linkdomain:command.
link:
This command in yahoo displays links to the page.
 syntax:
linkdomain:www.anysite.com
linkdomain:http://www.anysite.com
linkdomain:
This command in yahoo displays links to the entire
domain.
syntax:
linkdomain:www.anysite.com
linkdomain:http://www.anysite.com
There are some advanced ways of
using this command, We can exclude some site urls.
Yahoo is very generous on these things.
linkdomain:
llinkdomain:www.anysite.com
-site:www.anysite.com.This will display
links to site excluding the url mentioned in the
-site
llinkdomain:www.google.com
-site:www.google.com
Suppose if you have not set any
301 redirect and the site has 2 versions.One
without www version and the other with www version,then
we have to check for both versions separately,
Search engines consider www.yoururl.com different
from yoururl.com.It is because www.yoururl.com
is considered as the sub domain of yoururl.com,To
exclude this type of duplicate pages in the backlink
checking we can use something like linkdomain:www.anysite.com
-site:www.anysite.com -site:anysite.com.
Yahoo does allow queries with more
than 10 words.Google has a restriction of queries
with more than 10 words.This is a bad decision from
google.There are many people who search with more
than 10 words in the search query and those type
of searches are cut down to 10 words. I say this
because the following command will have more than
10 words in the search query.
linkdomain:www.anysite.com
-site:www.anysite.com -site:anysite.com -site:linkingsite.com
-site:www.linkingsite.com
The above search query will exclude
same site links from the backlinks as well as any
particular site you want to exclude from your backlinks.
It is very useful especially if you want to exclude
any site where you have bought text link ads or site
wide links.
linkdomain:www.anysite.com -inurl:keyword or keyword
phrase
The above search will exclude any site from the backlink check which has the keyword or keyword phrase in the URL or their domain name,
For example
Linkdomain:www.google.com –inurl:froogle
The above search will exclude backlinks with the keyword froogle in their URL or domain name,
Linkdomain:www.google.com –inurl:blogger google
The above search will exclude backlinks
with the keyword phrase blogger google in their URL
or domain name,
linkdomain:www.yoururl.com
–intitle:keyword
The above search will exclude sites with the particular keyword in their URL in the backlink checking,
For example:
linkdomain:www.google.com -intitle:google
The above search will exclude all back links with the word google in title
Now we will see the link: function.This
function behaves similar to the linkdomain: function,
the only difference this function will show links
pointing only to that particular page we are checking
backlinks,
For example:
Link:http://www.google.com
The above command will show all
links pointing to the URL www.google.com that yahoo
knows of.
Link: command can also be used with
other advanced features.
link:http://www.anysite.com
-site:www.anysite.com.This will
display links to the checking page excluding the
internal pages of that site.
Example:
link:http://www.google.com -site:www.google.com
The above example will show all
links pointing to that particular page excluding
the internal pages of that domain.
Suppose if you have not set any
301 redirect and the site has 2 versions, One the
without www version and the other with www version,
Then we have to check for both versions separately,Search
engines consider www.yoururl.com different from yoururl.com.
It is because
www.yoururl.com is considered as the sub domain of
yoururl.com.
To exclude this type of duplicate
pages in the backlink checking we can use something
like
link:http://www.anysite.com -site:www.anysite.com -site:anysite.com
The above command will exclude all
pages from the same site which will help us to measure
the exact
links yahoo knows from other sites linking to us.Yahoo
does allow queries with more than 10 words, Google
has a restriction of queries with more than 10 words.There
are many people who search with more than 10 words
in the search query and those type of searches are
cut down to 10 words.
Check the following
command which has more than 10 words in the search
query,
link:http://www.anysite.com
-site:www.anysite.com -site:anysite.com -site:linkingsite.com
-site:www.linkingsite.com
The above search query will exclude
same site links from the backlinks as well as any
particular site you want to exclude from your backlinks.
It is very useful especially if you want to exclude
any site where you have bought text link ads or site
wide links.
link:http://www.anysite.com -inurl:keyword or keyword phrase
The above search will exclude any site from the backlink check which has the keyword or keyword phrase in the URL or their domain name,
For example
link:http://www.google.com –inurl:froogle
The above search will exclude backlinks with the keyword froogle in their URL or domain name,
link:http://www.google.com –inurl:blogger google
The above search will exclude backlinks with the keyword phrase blogger google in their URL or domain name,
Next:
link:http://www.yoururl.com -intitle:keyword
The above search will exclude sites
with the particular keyword in their URL in the backlink
checking,If the linking site has that keyword in
their title then those sites will be excluded from
the backlink search.
For example:
link:http://www.google.com -intitle:google
The above search will exclude all back links with the word google in title
Next:
link:http://www.yoururl.com "keyword phrase"
The above search will return backlink
pages with that particular keyword phrase in it.
For example:
link:http://www.google.com "search engine company"
The above search will return backlink pages with search engine company in it,
MSN.com Backlink Checking Strategies
Latest Msn link checking statergy:
Like Google and Yahoo! MSN has very recently launched
Backlink Checking Strategies. All the procedure involved in checking
the backlink is similar to Google. Backlinks or inbound links are the
links that summit to your website. The fame of your site will be arbitrated
by number of back links pointing to it. This is done in a very efficient
manner by MSN Webmaster tools.
These Backlinks can be checked through webmaster
tools. To do so one must have an account in webmaster tools. After
registering an account log in to webmaster tools. Click on that particular
site to know the backlinks of a site. It will display all the backlinks
of that site. Then click the number in backlinks column to view a
sample list of links to that page. Through this webmaster tools we
can know all the backlinks of our site. Webmaster tools aid us to
know the backlinks of our site in a very effectual manner.
Ref:webmaster.live.com/
MSN results are right now powered by yahoo, so most of the command used in yahoo will imply for MSN too,
The 2 basic commands for backlink checking in MSN is link: and linkdomain:
Link: will display all links that MSN search knows for a particular page,
Linkdomain: will
display all links that MSN search knows for a particular
domain.
Next important search engine we will see is Alltheweb.com, Alltheweb was a powerful search engine before it was aquired by yahoo, Now that it is owned by yahoo the results in alltheweb.com is powered by yahoo, The important backlink command for alltheweb.com is
Link:www.anyurl.com
The above command will display all links to that particular page,
GOOGLE – GOOGLE Link checking strategies
Latest google link checking statergy:
More and more web masters are coming to the conclusion,
considering the changes in Google’s algorithm
which is more effective one in finding all the
errors in a particular site. This helps the site
to correct all the errors incurred in the site.
Backlinks or inbound links are the links that point
to your website. The popularity of your site will
be judged by number of backlinks pointing to it.
This is done in a very effective manner by Google
Webmaster tools.
Backlinks can be checked by webmaster tools.For
this we ought to have an account in webmaster tools.
After registering in webmaster tools, we should
login
& to know the back links of a site, we ought
to click on that particular site; it will display
all the back links of a site & click the number
in the External links column to see a sample list
of links to the page. Webmaster tools display the
total links of that particular site. By webmaster
tools we can know the back links. Webmaster tools
help us to know the back links of our site in a
very effective manner.
Ref: www.google.com/webmasters/tools
Last but not the least let
us deal some strategies on link checking with google.
Google as we all know is by far the best search engine
out there. Still they dominate the search market
and majority of the search users are google users,
Most of the users prefer google
to find information.They switch search engine only
if they don’t find what they
want in google.
Google’s crawler is the most active
crawler out there in indexing sites.They run around
indexing sites all the time.So they have the most
up to date information of pages which are updated
recently.So it simply means they know most of the
links pointing to our sites.
Google’s backlink checking
command is link:
First check the backlinks of a site
with the link: command
Syntax: link:www.anyurl.com or link:http://www.anyurl.com
Example:
Link:www.google.com or link:http://www.google.com
The above sample will show the backlinks
to that page.
Next useful command is the intext:<search
phrase in quotes>
Example: intext:"google
the best search engine" will give results
with the phrase google the best search engine anywhere
in the text of the web pages. This is an other
useful command to check the pages bearing our links,
Conclusion
Search Engines keepchanging what
they show in some advanced operators.This document
cannot be the same all the time At the time of writing
all the above syntax used are 100% perfect without
any errors. But it might change as the search engines
update them selves.This article is for education
purpose only,
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