When reading about search engine optimization, page rank and getting more traffic to your blog, you may have come across the term backlinks.
Backlinks also known as inbound links and incoming links are links from other websites to your site.
Having backlinks is vital to your blog, as it helps increase its popularity.
There are many means available to check your incoming links.
One method of checking for incoming links is to use link popularity servicessuch as linkpopularity.
com and marketleap.
com.
Keep in mind that unlike Yahoo and MSN, Google does not always display allyour backlinks.
Technorati- Another method for finding what blogs are linking to you is to check Technorati.
To check your links on Technorati use the following method http://www.
technorati.
com/search/yourblogtitle.
com.
Technorati states that they attempt to index full content from blogs.
If theycannot find a full content, they index the HTML on the front page.
Any contentthat can't be found in either of these places does not get indexed currently.
Soif a blog's RSS feed is not set to "full", then it is possible that not allbacklinks will show in Technorati.
Google Blogsearch- blogsearch.
google.
com is another place to check for newincoming links to your blog.
Google blog search allows you to search via aspecific timeframe, such as blogs linking in within the last hour, 12 hours, oneweek or months.
Google Blogsearch allows you to subscribe to the results via RSSfeed so you'll be updated whenever a new site links to your blog.
Ask.
com Blog Search- Ask.
com unique algorithm combines Ask.
com search andBloglines subscription data.
Searches can be conducted by "posts", "feeds" or"news".
Advanced search features are available.
http://www.
ask.
com/?tool=bls Icerocket Blog Search- icerocket.
com is a blog search engine likeGoogle Blog Search.
Icerocket Blog Search lets you track links from other blogsto your posts.
To check your links at Icerocket type this query into the searchfield link: yourblogtitle.
com.
Backlinkwatch- backlinkwatch.
com provides an all-in-one service to check your backlinks.
Theservice reports backlinks along with their PR, anchor text and if it's a nofollow or follow backlink.
PopUri- popuri.
us is an online tool which checks the link popularity ofany site based on its ranking.
Google offers Google Webmaster Tools which also shows the number of incoming links foryour website and Blog Pulse Search reports daily incoming links to your blog as well.
Check your incoming links through these various methods to get a wider scope ofjust who is linking to your blog.