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7 Tricks To Get A Gooooogle of Links - ghazal - 10-22-2009 02:00 AM
SEO is a race. And in any race learning from your competitors makes you a better runner. Even when you're running first it's sometimes good to look back and check the runner-ups. And if you're not the yellow jersey guy, you absolutely should examine the leaders: their gear, their training, their strategy. In SEO the most interesting thing about your competition are their links.
Whether you like it or not SEO is still pretty much about links. Good link profile can make up for almost any lack of optimized content and other onpage flaws. Love or hate, the best thing you can do about it is embrace the fact and run with it.
So let's go through some tricks that will enable you to look deeper into your competition's link profile granting you access to the restricted areas: their locker room, dirty laundry and even the briefing hall where they plan their link building strategies.
Let's Talk Competitive Link Research
Finding out where your competitors' links come from is not all that hard. You just go to Yahoo! or Google and type in link:www.your-competitor.com to get a list of inbound links to the site.
Yahoo's much better in that respect as it tends to give more extensive and accurate data. The problem here is that there's a limit of 1,000 links per website which is often not enough as the fattest link sources get left behind the limit fence. Here're some tips to break through to the other side.
Note: If you're lazy like me skip to the end of the article where I'll share a tool that does it all much quicker.
Trick 1: Search for Links to Particular Web Pages of a Competing Site
Alongside with link:www.your-competitor.com search for
link:www.your-competitor.com/products.html or
link:www.your-competitor.com/services.html
and so on.
Trick 2: Exclude Internal Links
You may examine the internal linking structure of your competition if you want to gain some insight on their navigation and marketing steps. But as we want to find more external links, let's exclude the internal ones.
You can do this by adding -site:site.com operator to your search query. Type in:
link:http://www.your-competitor.com -site:your-competitor.com or
linkdomain:www.your-competitor.com -site:your-competitor.com
and you'll get a list of external backlinks only.
There's a dropdown option in Yahoo! site explorer that does the same.
Trick 3: Exclude Links Coming from Certain Domains
The -site: modifier lets you exclude links coming from specific sites. So, whenever you see a large chunk of links coming from the same domain add -site:thisdomain.com modifier to your query and the links from this site will get replaced with new ones.
You can add -site: multiple times in one query so that you have something like this:
link:http://www.cnn.com -site:cnn.com -site:en.wikipedia.org
Trick 4: Check Links Coming from Certain TLDs
This is a little known trick. The site: modifier actually lets you get a list of links coming from domains with certain TLDs: .com, .org, .edu, .co.uk and so on. Just type in
link:http://www.your-competitor.com site:.gov or
linkdomain:www.your-competitor.com site:.gov
and you'll get a list of .gov sites linking to your rival.
Note: Do this in Yahoo! regular search, not site explorer
Trick 5: Exclude Links Coming from Certain TLDs
This is an even lesser known trick. You can exclude certain TLDs from the results with the -site:.tld modifier. Usually the biggest chunk of links comes from .com's so add a -site.com modifier and you'll get lots of new link data.
Trick 6: Use Different Combinations of the First 5 Tricks
Try link:http://www.your-competitor.com/page.html -site:your-competitor.com -site:.com
Or link:http://www.your-competitor.com site:.org -site:wikipedia.org
Give it a thought and I'm sure you'll come up with lots of ideas. Feel free to share your findings in the comments.
Trick 7: Use the Above 6 Tricks in Different Search Engines
Don't limit your searches to Yahoo! and Google, go to AltaVista, Alexa, (Bing doesn't give you link data, so forget about it) but then there're Exalead, Excite and tons of regional search engines. Search them, get rid of the the duplicates and you'll have a goooooooooooooooogol of competitor's links to study.
Note: Some search engines have a different set of operators so you'll need to type domain: instead of link:.
Getting It All Done Fast
This sure seems like a lot of work and it is. Moreover, getting the links list is only the beginning and the easy part of competitive link research. Once you get the list you need to analyze each link, weed out poor quality sites and only leave the ones you can get a link from. Now THAT's a lot of work.
I'm too lazy to do this all by hand, besides I value my time too much to waste it on such kind of work. That's why I use SEO SpyGlass an advanced link analysis tool that employs all the tricks described in this article (plus some more advanced ones I don't even know) to get up to 25,000 links per domain, which is much, much more than any other tool can get.
SEO SpyGlass also finds all the data I need to analyze the links:
• Google PR of the domain and linking page
• The URL and title of the linking page
• The anchor text and description
• Whether the link is still on the page (sometimes the link gets removed but search engines will
think it's there till they reindex the page).
• Whether the link is no-follow or dofollow
• How many other links are on the page
• How much link value the link passes
• And some other data like TLDs, domain age, country, etc.
If you want to do competitive link research seriously, I'd strongly recommend trying SEO SpyGlass out. And of course you can always use my tricks whenever you want to run a quick background check on that new guy on your block.
Note: This article first appeared on Site-Reference.com
Original Article From: http://www.goarticles.com/
RE: 7 Tricks To Get A Gooooogle of Links - adambrowm - 10-26-2009 05:24 AM
Hello
I read Your all tricks and click to all link. Well nice information for SEO. I am new for this site. I have many problem to google link. But your trick very useful to me. Such a really good tips. Thanks for share this post....
RE: 7 Tricks To Get A Gooooogle of Links - Rob1991 - 12-12-2009 09:15 PM
This post will come in so handy as I start to try advertise my website, thanks for the post, as adambrown said, the SEO section is really interesting, thanks!
RE: 7 Tricks To Get A Gooooogle of Links - naqshbandios_limra - 12-26-2009 12:32 PM
Very good resource ghazal. Thankx to share it.
RE: 7 Tricks To Get A Gooooogle of Links - janyropal - 03-20-2010 01:53 AM
Tip: Resist the temptation to CONSTRAIN as many points as you can. You have many images at your disposal, so ensure that you use only the best, most distinct spots to choose a constrained point.
RE: 7 Tricks To Get A Gooooogle of Links - assad - 03-26-2010 07:10 AM
Having good content on the forum also helps
RE: 7 Tricks To Get A Gooooogle of Links - jaybed - 05-25-2010 09:56 AM
Use the "site": operator to limit searches to a particular site. I use this one all the time, and it’s particularly handy because many site’s built-in search tools don’t return the results you’re looking for.Thanks to the great list, well organized and well worth bookmarking for future use.
RE: 7 Tricks To Get A Gooooogle of Links - Vlad96 - 06-07-2010 08:28 AM
Nice tips !
RE: 7 Tricks To Get A Gooooogle of Links - princehappy - 08-17-2010 12:47 PM
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RE: 7 Tricks To Get A Gooooogle of Links - aliciavali17 - 10-11-2010 05:51 AM
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RE: 7 Tricks To Get A Gooooogle of Links - KiraX - 10-21-2010 04:47 PM
wow thanks Nice Guide
RE: 7 Tricks To Get A Gooooogle of Links - algernonrich - 12-21-2010 06:54 PM
My Tricks To Get A Google of Links,
1 Use a tilde.
2 Use the image search.
3 Get a definition.
4 Search within a specific website..
5 Search within a specific kind of site.
6 Search for a specific file type.
7 Calculate with Google. Type in any normal mathematical expressions to get the
8 Time. Enter “what time is it” and any location to find out the local time.
9 Find a term in a URL.
10 Use Show Options to refine your search.
RE: 7 Tricks To Get A Gooooogle of Links - eliaslyn - 12-21-2010 07:40 PM
Few tricks to get the google of links as follows:
- Talk Competitive Link Research
- Exclude Internal Links
- Exclude Links Coming from Certain Domains
- Check Links Coming from Certain TLDs
- Exclude Links Coming from Certain TLDs
- Use Different Combinations of the First 5 Tricks
RE: 7 Tricks To Get A Gooooogle of Links - samsgc - 12-23-2010 04:03 PM
I would like to add some more
1. Appropriate Design including usability
2. Compelling content updated on a regular basis
3. Optimized for Search Engines and Directories
RE: 7 Tricks To Get A Gooooogle of Links - daxorichi - 12-27-2010 02:41 PM
1) Do not make link exchanges site wide.
2) Do not place your link in forums signature.
3) Do not make Link exchanges with sites that have more than 100 links
4 ) Link exchanges or one way links MUST BE MADE only with relevant content
5) Use in exchanging, URLS that have keywords in them.
6) Do not create sites on the same IP for exchanging links between them.
7) Do not make exchanges only with the home page of the site.
RE: 7 Tricks To Get A Gooooogle of Links - ivanjones13 - 01-24-2011 12:32 AM
Thanks for sharing. In my opinion, getting backlinks is the best option to get higher search engine rankings and popularity. Here are some methods which are mostly used as well as I use to get high quality backlinks:
1. Social Bookmarking
2. Directory Submission
3. Article Submission
4. Press Release
5. Email marketing
RE: 7 Tricks To Get A Gooooogle of Links - parlin - 02-21-2011 03:22 AM
Interesting, you guys post really very nice Tips and Information,
Nice useful and lovely tricks which are very helpful for all. Nice for sharing this great Information.
RE: 7 Tricks To Get A Gooooogle of Links - roselawson - 03-04-2011 01:04 PM
There are many ways to get a Google link. Here listed some of the link listed below.
1. Search for Links to Particular Web Pages of a Competing Site
2. Exclude Internal Links
3. Exclude Links Coming from Certain Domains
4. Check Links Coming from Certain TLDs
5. Exclude Links Coming from Certain TLDs
RE: 7 Tricks To Get A Gooooogle of Links - Bapun Raz - 09-02-2011 01:06 PM
very useful from now me too joining this........
RE: 7 Tricks To Get A Gooooogle of Links - Jim Cassanger - 05-27-2015 01:39 PM
get natural related links, more does not mean more quality perse