1. Enter the exact website address of the page you want to check the
backlinks for into the text
box. eg.(link-pop.org)
2. Click the "Check!" button
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Backlink Defined
Backlinks are
incoming links to a website or web page.
Backlinks enable you to keep track of other
pages on the web that link to your posts. The
number of back links is an indication of the
popularity or importance of that website
or page. In basic link terminology, a
backlink is any link received by a web node
(web page, directory, website, or top
level domain) from another web node (Björneborn
and Ingwersen, 2004). Backlinks are also called
incoming links, inbound links,
inlinks, and inward links.
Search engines
often use the number of backlinks that a
website has as one of the factors for
determining that website's search engine
ranking. For example, Google's PageRank
algorithm uses backlinks to help
determine a site's rank. To see a site's
PageRank, you need to use the Google Toolbar for Microsoft's Internet
Explorer or
, view the bar graph
indicating a website's PageRank in Google's
directory, or download the Page Rank plugin for
Mozilla Firefox.
Obtaining BackLinks from search
engines
Most commercial search
engines provide a mechanism to determine the
number of backlinks they have recorded to a
particular web page. For example, Google can be
searched using Google:link:Link-Pop.org
to find the number of pages on the Web pointing
to http://Link-Pop.org/. (link:en.link-pop.org
returns no results).
Google frequently only shows a
subset of all existing backlinks to a web
page, possibly because of the network costs of
providing this information. Yahoo! and MSN may
give more accurate backlink counts.
Yahoo!’s Site Explorer is a useful tool for
obtaining backlinks from Yahoo!.
Implementations
When HTML was designed,
there was no explicit mechanism in the design to
keep track of backlinks in software, as this
carried additional logistical and network
overhead. While Google does keep track of some
HTML backlinks, the data can be delayed
by hours or months, and backlink data is
not kept for pages that Google doesn't watch,
such as password-protected areas or dynamic
pages.
Some website software
internally keeps track of backlinks.
Examples of this include most wiki and CMS
software.
Other mechanisms have been
developed to track backlinks between
disparate webpages controlled by organizations
that aren't associated with each other. The most
notable example of this is TrackBacks between
blogs.
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