Who’s Linking to Your Site? Finding the Backlinks to Your Web Page
By alocsin
© 2011 by Aurelio Locsin.
You may have written the most useful and beautiful web page on the Internet. But it will remain unvisited unless people can find it. One way visitors locate your site is by following links to it from other sites. These links are called backlinks. The more backlinks that your page has, the more likely that people can find it and visit it. Your effort also moves up in the rankings for search engines like Google.
One way to get backlinks to your site is by manually posting them on other blogs, forums or web pages. But others may also discover your writing and post links to it without your knowledge. Your website provider may also automatically index your page. To find the backlinks to your website, do the following:
1. Browse the Google search engine.
Though other search engines are available, Google is by far the most popular.
2. Enter the web page address.
Remove the http:// part and precede the address with the word links: (with the letter s and a colon (:) at the end) as follows:
links: <web page name>
Where <web page name> is the URL of the page you want to check. The following is an example:
links:alocsin.hubpages.com/hub/ghest-Paid-Engineer-Jobs-in-the-USA
3. Click the Search button to display the results.
The number of links appears at the top of the list. This examples shows 308 backlinks. The actual pages that link to your site are listed as well.
4. Page through the listed links.
This gives you some idea of how others are links to your page. Click a link that you find interesting or unusual.
- If you think the site that is referring to your page inappropriate (such as from an adult or hate site), you can write the link owner and ask that your reference be removed.
- If the reference is appropriate, which is more likely, you can write the link owner to ask if she’ll include more links to your sites. You might want to set up a backlink exchange. You offer to put links to her pages on your site, in exchange for links to your pages on his site.
Tips
The number of backlinks to a page does not correlate exactly with the number of visitors. But, in general, sites with many backlinks get more visitors. Sites with little to no backlinks get little to no visitors.
Though you can use this technique on any of your web pages, you may want to reserve it for those that do not receive enough visitors. If a specific page already receives many readers, there's little need to increase its backlinks.
Check the backlinks for pages that you do not own but that are either similar to yours or belong to your closest competitors. Find out where those links are located, and put links to your sites on those pages.
For ideas on increasing backlinks or visitors, check out my following articles:
- How to Increase Website Traffic without Google
If you can increase website traffic to your page, you increase the number of ad impressions, and ultimately, the amount of money you earn from those impressions. Viewers ordinarily find your page through Google. But you don’t have to rely on that sea - Increase Website Traffic by Posting Links on Reddit – Part I
Find out how to increase website traffic by posting on Reddit. - Increase Website Traffic by Finding the Best-Selling Products to Write About
To increase website traffic to your pages, write only about the products that consumers are currently buying in large numbers. You can research these numbers methods. - Flash and Substance: Increase Website Traffic with Titles and Subtitles
Find out how to increase website traffic by using the right title and subtitle for your online writings. - How My Hub Went from Zero to 3,000 Page Views in Just Under Eight Hours
Find out how my hub went from zero to 3,000 page views in under eight hours.
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Comments
Nice work and very useful too. I have found my links in some very unusual places too.
It also shows which hubbers have been kind enough to link to your hub. Thanks for stopping by.
i like nuggets of info like this. i just did check my links. thanks!
i am just surprised, they do not include facebook, twitter and blog sites.
i just checked, if we use the trackers to post links to facebook or twitter and blog sites, they do not register as backlinks. that's what i learned. so instead of posting with trackers, it is better to share with the hub URL because it will register as backlinks. is this the case? just checking. thanks for your help.
AnjPerez, I'm afraid I don't know. None of my Facebook links has a tracker, and they're not showing up either in Google. So maybe it's not the tracker at all. Perhaps somebody with more experience with this option and with trackers will read your comments and answer the question.
you are right, alocsin. trackers has nothing to do with it not being seen. cos i tried linking using only the url. i still cannot see it when i search the links.
Very useful hub here. I need to get increase traffic to my hubs and this information adds to what I already know. Useful and voted up.
This is great information - I didn't know how to do this, and now I do. I did find a link someone had posted to a Facebook page, but I didn't bother to scroll through the page to find my link.
Voted up and useful Alocsin. Great article. Very useful info to follow. Hope all is well and hope you have a great weekend.
Very useful, at least as an indication. However, I did find the results also brought up some 'similar article' or site, not directly connected. Yet, a very useful trick!!
Thanks for SHARING!
P.S. I forgot to say, for my SHARING hub for more readers, you can always use the 'share' button. I'm really happy that everyone who commented seems to be getting more traffic! Spread the love! lol
This is a very useful tip. When I tried it, most of the backlinks to my hubs are from my own hubs or from my comments on other people hubs.
Thanks for stopping by. BlissfulWriter, that's true for me as well -- it just means I need to make more of an effort linking my hubs to relevant places. Brett, I like the use of the SHARE button better.
alocsin - I write a list of my favorite hubs I've read during the week, and this hub is included. Congratulations! Next time you check for backlinks on this hub, mine will be there!
Thanks so much for this information, a pretty neat trick.
This is awesome information as I've always wondered how I could access this data! Thank you a million for sharing this.
Wow, thanks Millionaire Tips and the rest of you. Hope you find good things with your backlinks.
I had a look at this and it was quite revealing. I had something like 2,600 back-links in many places I had never heard of. Very interesting information SHARING
I didn't know we could link by putting our URL out there like that. Great hub. Also, how do we link to other hubbers besides listing their hub in ours? There's a place under share that says link to this page. Is that it? Anyway, I'm going to try your tips. Bookmarking this page. Voted up, interesting, useful, and awesome!
I actually understand this, and your Hub has opened the way to your other Hubs and the much needed tips. Bookmarked, voted up and everything else. Thanks! (Go, Niners!)
Very interesting. I'll have to try this at once. I'm a writer, not a techie, so all the SEO and backlinks and trackers stuff is difficult for me to learn...I appreciate those such as yourself who place articles explaining it in non-technical terms.
Hmm...my results brought up my article, the link to the article, and no other data..I guess that means I have no backlinks anywhere out there. :(
Voted up, interesting and useful..oh, and shared.
I tried it and it worked. But mine said over a million back links. Is that right? Anyway This is great information about backlinks and SEO. Thumbs up!
Thanks all for visiting. The solutions if fairly simple if your article has no backlinks. Start going to other sites and linking them. AEvans -- that's a fantastic number. Is it a highly visited hub?
THis is some amazing information. I have never heard of doing this before and I am definately going to have to give it a try. Thanks for SHARING!
Thanks -- I hope it produces some happy surprises.
good article, my friend. very technical, but u explained it well.
Thank you for this advice. This is really useful. I am definitely bookmarking your hub.
Awesome hub, great information. This will keep me busy for a while. Thanks for sharing
I will try this and I'll share it. Voting up. Thanks.
I'm glad you found it useful. Thanks for stopping by.
great information, bookmarked it!
Very useful and easy to understand. Voting up!
Thank you both for reading my hub.
How interesting and useful. I will apply some of your tips when I have more time. Voted up and useful.
This is interesting! Thanks for sharing this.
Glad you found this worthwhile. Thanks for reading.
Excellent information. Voted up. Hope I can do it.
Great information! Very useful article. I will try posting links on reddite. Thanks for sharing it.
I'm new here and still learning. This is a great piece of info for me. I'm going to give it a try. I've just started linking to other hubber's pages, but didn't know how to get people to link to mine or whether anybody was doing it. Thanks so much. Great hub
Awesome!
Thanks much for stopping by, and I hope this technique works out for you.
This is a very helpful and much needed hub with great information. Backlinking is just so important to gaining more traffic and having our hubs become more search engine friendly., Thanks for putting in so much work into this hub. Voted up.
Well it's a great tip for the beginners. There are various other Google Commands as well that we use in our SEO i.e. Search Engine Optimization. I will discuss various Google Commands in my next Hub. Nice Hub Alocsin! Great Work
You can also use Google Web Master tools and Alexa.com to check your backlinks. Alexa.com will give your competitor's backlinks.
Interesting tips alocsin, as I'v come to expect with all your other hubs. I keep learning a few new things each time. Useful information!
Thanks for SHARING.
Good info!!
Thanks, again, for the great advice. I am always looking for legal ways to backlink my hubs. I will definitely be bookmarking this and trying your recommendations!!
Votes and shares!! :-)
alocsin,
I didn't know this method of checking back links. Thank you for sharing this information.
Great advice! Voting up and sharing it with my followers. Thanks for compiling this info alocsin.
You rock alocsin! What would we do without your informative hubs? I hope we never have to find out!:)
I'm with Sunshine. I don't know what I'd do without this information you provide. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for a useful tool to add for getting to know more about SEO and Google's features. I must say, there were some very strange results from some of the URLs I entered, with a lot of "linking" sites redirected to
http://www.000webhost.com/admin-review
as "Website under review...for malicious content."
Voted up and useful!
Hey, this is terrific! My hubpages subdomain is sending me more traffic than ever and I've played around with other tools to see who's backlinking. But I'm going to do your method.
I'm glad that so many hubbers are finding this info useful.
Thanks
Great Hub. I'm new at this so this was very informative and helpful. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the great information. I'm going to try it now. Learning something new every day! Very useful hub!
alocsin your article made it relatively simple. I am trying it as we speak. Thanks for sharing
Bookmarked!
This is another interesting read. I will definitely try this technique and learn how I could improve my hub's visibility even more.
Your hub has made me aware that I can check out back links. That's something else for my 'To do' list. I feel I've some way to go before I start checking out the competition though!!
Thank you I found your hub useful and have bookmarked it for future reference.
Definitely bookmarking this one! I had no idea that checking for backlinks was even possible. I am learning so much from you. Thanks. Up votes and sharing!
Very interesting and informative hub. Thanks for sharing this hub.
Unfortunately the Google link: operator is completely inaccurate. You will most likely see more backlinks listed in webmasters tools, but still not all of them. The link operator used to work many years ago, today it only shows a selection of links.
wow, Really usefull for me because I am now doing backlink for my site, www.amarhashi.com/ and hope that I will make it as a high pr blog within a short time. :D
Thanks for pointing that out, Peter Hoggan. I didn't think it was a complete list of backlinks.
Let us know how it goes, Hashirraja.
Another amazing hub sharing details and information on how we can better position our writing. You have so many inside tips on SEO and the Internet. Thanks for being so generous with your knowledge!
Voted up and useful!
Hey! It is interesting to see who is linking to your pages.
Hi Alocsin, thank you so much, I really learned so much from you, your determination for success inspires me too...:)
what a useful hub, voted up. :)
Hi, This is great! I just did it and realised that I had better get linking! I have quite a few, mainly when I was on another site, but not that many, great info, thanks!
Excellent hub!
This is great advice. Thanks so much for sharing. I would have never thought to do this without your suggestion. Voted up and awesome!
Aah thank you for this information! Now I can see who is linking to my Hubs so I can be sure to return the favor :) I am a computer dummy and you make everything so simple to understand.
alocsin, Awesome and informative hub! Thank you so much for putting this together! It always helps me when I can read words of wisdom from my fellow hubbers such as yourself! Lisa voted up!
Thanks for sharing I always thought the syntax was sites: but I just tried links and it works. (not sure whats the difference) Thanks for sharing.
Great to know this, I'm always confused on finding out backlinks to my site.
Hi alocsin,
It's a really informative hub. Hats off to you.
This is another great useful article Alocsin. This is something I would like to find out on my articles, so thanks a bunch.
Thank you for sharing. This is an awesome hub with a lot of interesting tips.
dappledesigns 4 months ago
great hub! I just did it and it works perfectly.