How to Determine the Number of Internal Links to a Particular Page
Yahoo Site Explorer lets you determine the incoming links to your Web pages. Backlinks improve your websites PageRank, so site administrators keep track of backlinks from other website owners. Site explorer lets you view backlinks for a page or for the website in general. The tool lists the website page in which the link is embedded for external and internal Web pages.
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Instructions
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Yahoo Site Explorer
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Open a Web browser and navigate to the Yahoo Site Explorer Web page.
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Type your website page or just the domain in the text box labeled "Explore URL."
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Click the "Explore URL" button to view a list of links. Click the "Inlinks" button to only see Web pages linking to you.
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Select "Except from this domain" in the drop-down box. This filters out links that are on your own pages that link to the page you specified.
Google Link Operator
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Open a Web browser. Navigate to the Google search engine hompage.
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Type "link: yoursite.com" (without the quotes) where "yoursite.com" is the site you want to review.
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Click the "Search" button. All pages listed have a link to the Web page specified in the search text box.
Bing Webmaster Tools
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Open a Web browser and navigate to the Bing Webmaster Tools website using your account. If you do not have an account, navigate to the Bing Webmaster Tools signup page and create a Bing webmaster account.
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Click the "Index" section to view a list of options. Click the "Links" link to view inlinks.
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Review the inlinks. The "target" column shows you where the link points to from the internal website. The report also displays the amount of links pointing to the particular page.
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