Hello Everyone!!! I was trying to find a query for Google to show all the back links of a site. link:www.domain.com shows only few backlinks. If you search for a site's back links with the following query, I hope that you will get almost full back links of a site in Google. Queries are: +domain.com %domain.com 'domain.com Please let me know what do you people think?
Those commands you have suggested get you the instances/websites/webpages where your domain-name is mentioned.. backlink or plain text reference.. so they are not as much useful.. If you do a plain search using "yourdomain.com" you get the same results as what you would get by using : +domain.com %domain.com 'domain.com
As what has been suggested by fadetoblack, check out your Google sitemap account -> Links section. Alternatively, you can also use the Yahoo-powered Backlink Analyzer.
Thank you all for your precious comments and suggestions. I wish to know one thing that how will I uncover my competitor links using Google Webmaster because it will first verify that the particular site belongs to you or not, if it is yours then it will display links other wise not. Also if you people know any tool or utility to spy on competitors? It is highly appreciated.
For spying on competitors the best bet is probably yahoo's site explorer. And no you cannot use Google's webmaster tools to spy on others as far as i know. Anyways Yahoo detects more links than Google and its always better to overestimate your competition than underestimate it right?
Google's link count is purposely broken to prevent link spamming...Use Yahoo Site Explorer...it's pretty accurate.
Thank you all for your replies. Regarding spying, I think its not necessary that Google considers the same links as back links which yahoo is considering.
I try the above query. But I think it is different from link:domain.com If I use the query +domain.com it display also display results that has "domain.com" in the content while link:domain.com display result of your live link.
That's right. I get 20 times more in the webmaster. However google still show much less backlinks than other SEs.
there is no difference . all of them is giving same result with domain.com search result . if you want to check your backlink , use yahoo . it's giving more backlinks
matt cutt mentioned last year that link:site.com isn't very reliable right now. here is a site to check BL http://backlinkwatch.com/ I have a program that I use too, let me find the link here ya go http://www.checkyourlinkpopularity.com/ this is a great tool, and free
You can also quickly find out a lot of the web sites that links to you by using: link:yoursite.com on MSN.com. Much more opened than Google, but it hasn't indexed that many pages.