Is there any way I can track how many backlinks I have given another website? That is to say, if I have linked to someone else's webpage, is there a means for me to know how many of these links have been crawled by Google and indexed? In other words, I want to know, if a webmaster looked at HIS/HER backlink count in their Google webmaster panel, how many links MY domain would be credited with? I need to place a general link value on the number of backlinks I am giving someone else. Is there an easy way to track this? Thanks in advance for any input. Steve
Let me be more specific: Most of the links found in the back-link services are intended to provide general information about your INBOUND links not OUTBOUND link value... I have a rotating batch of thousands of domains to which my site gives value, where attorneys pay me to be on tens of thousands of law related web-pages. I need an automated way of tracking the number of indexed back-links THEY are receiving from the constant Google/Bing crawls on my pages (average about 50,000 crawls per day). I am trying to discover a way to automate a tracking process that allows me to know who's getting how many back-links from me... it needs to be quick and efficient (likely need to be scripted) and fully automated, probably running almost continually since certain reports go out to the clients routinely. I can easily track which pages are crawled and what attorneys were linked on these pages but I need to know within some level of assurance how these crawls are affecting my clients backlinks. Some clients report receiving 1,000's of back-links from me (Statutes/law content is huge). So as I am sifting thru the many 'services' what Im really wondering is how THEY get this information since I would likely have to script discovery thru their sites and trust their information rather than develop my own methods... So maybe my question really ought to be: "How do these sites collect back-link information for specific domains?"
I have concluded that some, if not all of AHREF.com information is coming NOT from Google but from their own crawlers.
with or without the s that site is gleeming most of it's information from it's own crawlers and not from google. The site you mention is an interesting alternative to ahrefs but is still overkill for what I'm looking for. I need to know what backlinks OTHER domains have from me in Google. Near as I can tell there is no way to know this definitively unless you are the owner of the domain in question. While an independent crawler can asses much of the same information there is no guarantee that the information matches what google has decided to index.
These results are still hit & miss at best... It is still limited to the frequency and depth of their crawlers... I am not interested in what their crawlers see, I am interested only in what google has successfully indexed.
You could always use ahrefs ! And download all the lists .... of backlinks ! And there after check them throughly.
1. AHREFS.com near as I can tell is NOT Google data, but rather data collected from their own crawlers. As such, the data they provide me comes from them crawling my site... their crawlers never even do a small fraction of a complete crawl on my site which over 500,000 pages of content, so... pretty much uselesss 2. I need to validate thousands of clients, something that AHREFS.com wants THOUSANDS of dollars a month to allow me to do. AHREFS is great for comparing data for your own site with that of your competition. Just won't work for what I was trying to accomplish. Unless there is a way to get GOOGLE to tell me what THEIR data says about what another site's referring domains are and how many backlinks each provides.... Near as I can tell, they don't publish that information... Am I wrong? Again, this has nothing to do with paid reciprocal links. Attorneys pay me to annotate statutes which are displayed to people reading law. Those annotations can contain links to the attorney's website. I already know which pages are crawled, that's easy. However, because of the rotation schedule, and because there are so many attorneys in so many different areas, I wanted to verify what Google was successfully indexing (this because of canonical meta data and other factors). It gets complicated because the same statutes are displayed in different regions with different annotations depending on the location of each visitor. I have to avoid the "duplicate content" issue while retaining a geographically centered delivery. Thanks for the input.