Check Your Google Links Now!
"You can view the links to your site by selecting a verified site in your webmaster tools account and clicking on the new Links tab at the top."
Finally, we have a way to get a good count of what Google knows about pages linking to our sites! Many of the tools I have tried recently that count external links to sites simply do not report much information about Google links. Even the Google "backward links" tool on the toolbar does not provide satisfying results. This uses the "links:..." operator that works for other search engines, such as Yahoo.
Now, Google has offered the ability to check on your own links through the Webmaster Tools interface. Too bad, this will not help in checking Google back links to other sites (unless you own them, or at least, have access to the sites). but it is a big step forward in helping to collect information about sites that you do control.
To use it, you have to get into the Webmaster Tools site, which requires registering, but it is free, so, no worries. Once there, you must set up the site(s) you want to check. This will require posting a file or some code to the site to verify that you have that kind of access, so there are several steps involved the first time you go in. After that, you have access to a nice set of tools to explore and analyze various aspects of your site operation.
This is also where you register sitemaps for your site, another Google supported tool for helping you to improve your site performance.
If you have not done so yet, you must go to the Webmaster Tools site and get yourself established and begin using this toolkit to help you manage your site
Finally, we have a way to get a good count of what Google knows about pages linking to our sites! Many of the tools I have tried recently that count external links to sites simply do not report much information about Google links. Even the Google "backward links" tool on the toolbar does not provide satisfying results. This uses the "links:..." operator that works for other search engines, such as Yahoo.
Now, Google has offered the ability to check on your own links through the Webmaster Tools interface. Too bad, this will not help in checking Google back links to other sites (unless you own them, or at least, have access to the sites). but it is a big step forward in helping to collect information about sites that you do control.
To use it, you have to get into the Webmaster Tools site, which requires registering, but it is free, so, no worries. Once there, you must set up the site(s) you want to check. This will require posting a file or some code to the site to verify that you have that kind of access, so there are several steps involved the first time you go in. After that, you have access to a nice set of tools to explore and analyze various aspects of your site operation.
This is also where you register sitemaps for your site, another Google supported tool for helping you to improve your site performance.
If you have not done so yet, you must go to the Webmaster Tools site and get yourself established and begin using this toolkit to help you manage your site
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