How to Find Backlinks to Your Site Using Yahoo Site Explorer

how to find backlinks to your site with yahoo site explorer

Learn how to find backlinks to your site using yahoo site explorer.

I see the questions, "how do I find out who linked to my article?" or "how do I check my backlinks?" or "where do I find trackbacks for my pages?", all the time.

Well, it's actually very easy using yahoo site explorer, not to mention it's free.

The following is a step by step guide with screen shots to show you how to find backlinks to your site.

Difficulty:

Easy

Instructions

1. yahoo site explorer

   The first thing you want to do is go to http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ (a clickable link is in the resources area at the bottom of the article)

   You can see a picture of the site to your left. Click on it and take a look to make sure you are at the right spot.

2. backlink checker

   The next step you are going to do is to type in the URL or address of your site or page that you want to check. You will type that in the box between where it says Yahoo Site Explorer and Explore URL. Now click explore URL. You will get a list of results that look like the screen shot to your left. In this case I used eHow as the site to be explored.

   Remember to put in the entire address if you are trying to look up a specific page and not the entire website.

3. check backlinks

   The next step is to click on the inlinks button to the right of the pages button in the results area. Then to the right of that in the drop down box where it says "From All Pages", change that to Except from this domain". Click on the screen shot to the left if you don't understand.

4. backlinks to page

   Now look below in the results area and you will see all of the backlinks to that page from outside the website. The number of links is next to where it says inlinks. The actual links are all listed below.

Resources

• Yahoo Site Explorer