but the choose to not reveal most of the links thy have identified, in order to not help SEO tricksters. Google reports that Yahoo.com has 6590 links, but if you use one of the backlink reporting services you get a bigger number, http://www.opensiteexplorer.org reports that Yahoo has 49.5 Million links. Another backlink tool is http://backlinkwatch.com these tools don't scour every single page on the internet, so some lower value links are not identified.
This backlink information, particularly the detailed competitive report from paid services can show you the links competing sites are getting, a simple count of links is of limited value, the quality of links is important as well, one quality link can be more powerful than 1000 robot generated spam links.
I use a free backlink checking tool -- http://Moonsearch.com
It shows almost unlimited number of backlinks providing information on their anchors, pagerank, and traffic rank as well.
Backlinks, also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links, are incoming links to a website or web page. In basic link terminology, a backlink is any link received by a web node from another web node
Yes you must measure the inbound links to your site if you want to increase your search engine rankings. Problem is you will get different results depending on the tool you are using. For example i use site explorer and this tell me how many links my pages have but if I use another tool I will get different numbers.. I now use market samurai and that seems to be correct as I know how many links I create to my sites and this seems to add up correctly. one problem people have is being impatient, they create links, ping them and expect them to show up straight away. Remember it can take the spiders weeks and even months to find your links and index them.
How do you measure inbound links? What tool do you use? Do you find it accurate and useful? I'm looking for a tool, or recommendations, on both how and what to measure.
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Is measuring inbound links even still appropriate?
Looking forward to your answers.
Cheers!
