How to Check Backlinks to Your Website
Checking backlinks (the sites that link back to your website) is a good way to see how many websites, and what kind of websites are linking back to yours. This helps you develop linking campaigns, and increase the page ranking of your website. Checking these backlinks is a very simple process, and there are several ways to do it. The easiest way is to log on to the king of search engines, Google.
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Instructions
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How to Check the Backlinks to Your Website
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Log on to Google's home page.
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In the address bar where you would normally type in your search phrase, type the word "link" and then a colon.
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Hit enter, and Google will return all the sites that have linked back to yours. You can view these like you would view search results. Each link will be listed in order for you to view.
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If you are into SEO, you can also download one of Mozilla's free SEO tools, by visiting their add-on page and typing SEO in the search bar. Download their tools and then bring up your website in your browser. These tools have linking information which you can use.
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If you like, visit a few more sites to do additional checking. Their are several backlink checkers offered free on the web.
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Tips & Warnings
More linking tools are available that offer a few different features. You can install SEO add-ons from Mozilla or another source to analyze the page rank, and other valuable information about the sites that link to yours. This will help you see how your backlinking campaign is benefiting your site. If pages have high page ranks, then their link will be worth more to your website's rankings.
Checking backlinks using different tools is a good idea, since Google may not index all of the sites that link to you, however, it is fairly safe to assume it will index almost all of them.
Backlinks do help increase your site's page rankings, however they aren't the only thing that improves your results. Content and more content is the key. Also, links from lower ranking pages or banned sites could adversely affect your website's rankings. It is a good idea to check for sites like this using a backlink checker.
Buying backlinks is not generally considered a good process, since the page ranks of the linking sites is not always very high.
