how do i count the links to a competitors page

ok, i have a keyword i am optimizing for. i search on gxxgle to see who is #1. Now I want to know how many "links" are pointing to that page that is #1 with a specific keyword in the anchor.

I thought that:

site: competitor-domain.com inanchor:"keywords-here"

...should do the trick, but i am doubting it.

Am I doing it right?

 

hrrm... try link:www.sitename .com or I often use the googlebacklink tool at http://www.searchenginegenie.com/

hope that helps!
Nigel

 

First of all you shouldn´t use gxxgle for this as "link:" is no longer supported but it should look like this
link:site.com inanchor:keyword,
e.g. link:about.com inanchor:about amd you get all links to about.com which have "about" in the anchor.

 

I gave that a go but it didnt work. I tried in yahoo. Who would you recommend for that? I know some SEO programs do it like SEOELITE but i would think the SE can do it too

 

Here is the best tool!
iwebtool.com/link_popularity

 

I know the incoming links to the ranking page is only one part of the equation, but I just want to use it as a guide to see how manu links I will need for the specific keyword to drive to get there. Of cause PR and content still plays a roll, as well as PR of the linking site.

 

Hi, akdiver,

yahoo in this is 100x better as google no longer supports this function...

 

I'm not so sure that tool is so great. I just checked
it with one of my sits and it gave totally invalid info

 

There is a good SEO addon for Firefox it will do alot of this stuff for you. Its called SEOQuake.

 

in my opinion, it's not possible to do