Search Links To A Domain

Select a search engine to review notes regarding interpreting results for each backlink search query

News Trendline

New Microsoft linkfromdomain Command
Live Search announced a few days ago that they are now supporting a new operator called linkfromdomain. This search will return all outgoing links from a domain.

Wikipedia Backlink Function
A wildcard may be used, at the start of the name only, for example "*.wikipedia.org" will return all citations of wikipedia.org.

Google

link:domain.com

Yahoo

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

MSN

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

About Researching Backlinks

You may utilize the above search engine queries to research which pages on the Interent link to your web site along with competitive and benchmark web sites. By researching which sites link to your competition you can gauge the level of competition for particular keyword markets along with web sites that may potentially also provide an opportunity to link to your web site.