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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Who Links to My Site?

If you maintain a Web site, whether it be for personal use, for a business or whatever, it can be interesting to find out what other Web sites link out to your homepage.

Web site administrators often come to sites and see something that they would like to include on their site. For example, many people email me to ask if they can use an article from Fred's Head in their publications. Fortunately, we are very open to letting other people use our material, as long as they give us proper credit.

This type of thing is very common. Most people seem to like it, because it gives their site more recognition and it helps get the word out to more places. On the other hand, some of you may not like your material being used on other sites. That is, of course, perfectly fine, because it is your Web site, you own it, you run it and you can do what you want with it.

Either way, this little trick will help you see which Web sites have links to yours, which in turn, anyone can see. If you like the recognition, you can always go and check to make sure the site is giving you credit and if you don't like the situation, you can always go to the site and look up the administrator's contact information so you can e-mail them and ask them to remove your material. They have to comply because it's your property! You can see this tip is going to be good for either side of the track.

Click this link to visit Google's homepage and in the search box, you're going to type a simple line: link:yoursite.com. When done, just click on Search.

Change "yoursite" to your Web site's address. For instance, I wanted to check out how many sites have information from Fred's Head, so I went to Google and typed in link:FredsHead.info. Several entries came up, which didn't surprise me, but it was cool to see all of them. I also tried doing one for aph, so I typed in link:aph.org and even more came up.

If you have a blog and an RSS feed, you'll see some sites that track your entries. This is really cool and it gives you a totally new look at your site.

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