I heard about this brilliant tip from Paul Silver at Barcamp Brighton this weekend, and not being able to find much about it on the web thought I’d write it up. This material comes from Paul’s presentation about ethical SEO.
Google sucks at displaying the number of incoming links to your website when you search using “link:www.yourdomain.com”, supposedly because companies could use that to find people who linked to their competitors.
Yahoo! on the other hand, makes no bones about this, and there is a really neat trick you can use to find a much better approximation to the number of inbound links to your site:
linkdomain:www.yourdomain.com -site:www.yourdomain.com
This looks for all links to www.yourdomain.com but the “-site” part tells Yahoo! to ignore all links that originate from pages on www.yourdomain.com.
Easy. Thanks Paul!
