Best way to see how many incoming links you have?

Hi,
What is the best way to see how many websites, or web pages, are linking to your website?

I sometimes use link:yoursite.com in google but i do not think it is 100% accurate. Are there any other better ways?

 

Google is not best option for checking backlinks. Try at yahoo or MSN.

 

You'll never see all of them in Google, they show a 'selection' of backlinks.

Take a look at marketleap.com they search Google, MSN and Yahoo.

 

Yahoo is the best by far. Google shows about 10% of your links.

 

Try this tool http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=150492
I found it very usefull.

 

I use yahoo for this purpose and yeah google dont show all of them
Good Luck ..!!

 

Yahoo!!
Google only shows the pages with some PR.

 

MSN and Yahoo about the only use I have for them is checking backlinks

 

I am also prefer to use Yahoo as G is not showing all of your backlinks.

 

Yeah, Google never show accurate back links. It only shows around 25% of the links. Yahoo and MSN are good.

 

Check your traffic statistics , from which all link people are visiting your website

 

I like to use this for backlinks backlinkwatch.com

 

When using yahoo or msn to search for backlinks how exactly do you do it?

For example in google you search for 'link:yoursite.com', so in yahoo/msn what do you do?

Thanks for all the advice/suggestions so far as well.

 

In yahoo you search for link:http://www.yoursite.com

 

Try using the linkdomain command as well, this will show you the total number of links that link to any page on the domain - not just the links pointed at the root domain only.

The proper format in Yahoo and MSN for this would be:

linkdomain:http://www.domain.com

Hope this helps!