How to Use Yahoo! to Find Backlinks

Discover which sites link to your website or blog with Yahoo! Site Explorer.

A "backlink" is an incoming link from another website or blog. Finding the backlinks to your website is a useful way of monitoring the overall popularity of your site and identifying specific content that other users find interesting or useful. Search engines use the number and quality of incoming backlinks as a factor when determining the importance and relevance of a website, so a healthy crop of backlinks can push your site higher up the search engine rankings. One way of finding backlinks to your website or blog is to submit your site to the online Yahoo! Site Explorer service. This free tool checks your website and lists all incoming backlinks.

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Instructions

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  Launch your Web browser, and navigate to siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com.
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  Type the full address for your website or blog into the input field on the Yahoo! Site Explorer homepage. You don't need to include the "http:// " prefix, but do include the "www" part of the address.
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  Click the "Add My Site" button. When prompted, enter your Yahoo! username and password. If you don't have a Yahoo! account, then click the "Create New Account" button and follow the on-screen prompts to open an account.
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  Click the "My Sites" link in the left-hand menu.
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  Click the "Explore" button beside your website address in the main window.
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  Click the "Inlinks" button on the top menu. This displays a list of all incoming backlinks to your website.