Most of us Alex Jeffreys students have installed the widlink plugin to help getting traffic to the blogs. It’s been around 2 weeks after I installed it and this morning I check how many blogs linked to my blog – the one you are reading now. You can use the search engines to find backlinks to your blog but the results vary greatly.

Have a look at what Google told me about my backlinks:

Searching backlinks on Google

If you want to see your backlinks on Google just type in link:http://yourdomain.com in your Google search box. As you can see from my result above Mr. G doesn’t really want to tell me how many blogs or sites are linking to my blog. It only shows me a link from Technorati.

Yahoo! is better. Here is the screenshot of what it gives me:

Backlinks result on Yahoo!

If you want to use Yahoo! to find backlinks to your blog just go to siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com and type in http://yourdomain.com in the Explore URL box. Yahoo! told me there are at least 72 sites or blogs linking to my blog, most of them come from Alex Jeffreys students’ blogs. Note that Yahoo! may ask for your Yahoo! ID to enter this site. If you have a Yahoo! e-mail you then you just input the ID and the password of your e-mail account.

The best result I got is from the Backlink Checker. Here is the screenshot of my backlinks:

Backlink Checker result

I like Backlink Checker because it gives me the Google Page Rank of the sites linking to my blog. Backlink Checker told me that I currently have 69 sites or blog linking to my blog. The number is roughly the same as the number Yahoo! told me so at least I have an idea about the number of sites linking to this blog. I currently have links from 2 blogs with PR4, one blog with PR2 and one blog with PR1. The PR1 blog belongs to Garry Parkes while the other 3 blogs are not Alex Jeffreys related blogs.

- Rudi

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