Link Functions

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Contents 1 Google 1.1 link:domain.com 1.2 cache:domain.com 2 Yahoo 2.1 link:domain.com 2.2 linkdomain:domain.com 2.3 linkdomain:domain.com keyword 2.4 linkdomain:domain.com -site:domain.com keyword 2.5 Other Yahoo! link building tools 3 MSN 3.1 link:domain.com 3.2 linkdomain:domain.com keyword 3.3 linkdomain:domain.com -site:domain.com 3.4 linkdomain:domain.com -site:domain.com keyword 4 Ask 4.1 link:domain.com keyword

Google

link:domain.com

- Shows all backlinks for the queried domain

cache:domain.com

- Screenshot showing what Google spiders last captured on the website.

Yahoo

link:domain.com

- Shows all backlinks pointing to the homepage of the domain

linkdomain:domain.com

- Shows all backlinks pointing to any page on the queried domain

linkdomain:domain.com keyword

- Shows all the backlinks of the site that have the specified keyword in either the title, description or url. This is great for finding all of the relevant sites linking to a given site.

linkdomain:domain.com -site:domain.com keyword

- Shows all the backlinks pointing to domain.com with the word plumbing in the title, description, or URL. It then removes any links coming from internal page. This is great if you are trying to run this on a site with a ton of internal pages. It makes it real easy to see a cleaned list.

Other Yahoo! link building tools

- Yahoo! is probably the most SEO and Webmaster friendly of the search engines. They recently released a way to find all sorts of internal links called Yahoo Site Explorer.

MSN

link:domain.com

- Shows all backlinks pointing to the homepage of the domain

linkdomain:domain.com keyword

- Shows all the backlinks of the site that have the specified keyword in either the title, description or url. This is great for finding all of the relevant sites linking to a given site.

linkdomain:domain.com -site:domain.com

- Shows all the backlinks pointing to domain.com but removes any links coming from internal page. This is great if you are trying to run this on a site with a ton of internal pages. It makes it real easy to see a cleaned list.

linkdomain:domain.com -site:domain.com keyword

- Shows all the backlinks pointing to domain.com with the word "keyword" in the title, description, or URL. It then removes any links coming from internal page. This is great if you are trying to run this on a site with a ton of internal pages. It makes it real easy to see a cleaned list.

Ask

There is no "easy" way to get links from Ask. However we've found this works:

link:domain.com keyword

- shows all the links to a domain where the "keyword" appears in and around the link.