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WEBDOMAIN.com
07-31-2006, 09:36 AM
The audit of popularity consists in identifying the external links pointing towards the pages of the site to promote and to measure their contribution to the traffic of this Web site.

The identification of the external links.

The search for the external links is relatively simple because, for the main search engines, there is a syntax of query which allows to obtain the list of the links pointing towards the aimed site.

We can remind among others the following modes of query:

link:youdomainname.com on Altavista
link:www.yourdomainname.com on Google
link:yourdomainname.com on MSN
link:yourdomainname.com on Lycos

By typing link:www.google.com Google for example, we obtain a list of 3 460 000 sites pointing to Google!

It is also possible to resort to free on-line services allowing to make at one time the query on several search engines and to obtain the results in a aggregated way.

The Link Popularity Check (http://www.linkpopularitycheck.com) service allows to identify the external links on the engines of MSN, All The Web, Fast and Altavista and proposes a service of sending the results by e-mail every month. As for the service LinkPopularity (http://www.linkpopularity.com/), he allows to interrogate Google, Altavista and Hotbot.

This search for links can also be made through specialized types of software like Arelis (http://www.axandra-link-popularity-tool.com/) which also allows to get back in an automated way the text of the identified links.

It is advisable to note that these search's commands for links can only return links on sites already referenced in the indexes of the main search engines. It is possible that certain influencing sites are not in the indexes, that it is voluntary or not from their part. The number of these sites except index and their potential in term of prescription of visits is however mostly unimportant.

Naturally, the search can also be made on competors domain names to identify target sites on which to obtain links and to be able to consider if the present popularity is satisfactory with regard to the similar competitors sites in their contents...

Measure the contribution of the influencing sites.

The count of the external links is an insufficient datum in her even, because she does not allow to distinguish the really influencing sites of the sites which bring almost no visit.

The only way to measure the contribution is to analyze the audience's datas of the site towards which the external links point. All the services or stats tools parse "referrers" or URL of origin which correspond to Web pages having brought a guest by the bais of a hypertext link.

For classifications on Google, potential of a site as influencer can be partially obtained by observing its Page Rank through the Google Toolbar or specialized web sites. This is however an indication among the others on the value of this site, because it is necessary to consider also the number of links proposed by this site and the context of these links.

cyclone
08-04-2006, 11:21 AM
Thanks for the advice. I usually use submitexpress.com to search for my links popularity. I will though take a look at that url you provided. :-)

Dennis

visio
08-05-2006, 04:51 PM
why it happens that I have thousands of links in MSN and only 38 in google?

WEBDOMAIN.com
08-07-2006, 04:49 AM
I can't be sure but some of your metas are better interpreted by MSN bots that Google's.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta http-equiv="Revisit-After" content="5 days">
<meta name="Author" content="Hosting Marketers">
<meta name="Copyright" content="Hosting Marketers">
<meta name="Distribution" content="Global">
<meta name="Rating" content="General">
<meta name="Language" content="en-us">
<meta name="Robots" content="index, follow">

At last, to get better referenced in google I would definitivly use robot.txt and sitemap.xml files. You can get more informations on Google's sitemap web site (http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps) (I suggest you to open an account there as well.).

www.eukhost.com
08-07-2006, 07:57 AM
hi

This is shane..the following link would also help you out to check your domain popurality in any search engine.

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/

regards
shane richards

WEBDOMAIN.com
08-08-2006, 12:04 PM
Hi Shane, welcome aboard.
This is definitivly an useful resource.
Thank you for the link.

SimpleSolutions
08-16-2006, 03:29 PM
I would always reccomend Market Leap for checking link popularity, seems to always be up to date and as closely accurate as possible:

http://www.marketleap.com/

Just look under the heading SEO 101 all their tools are under that heading.

numaria
08-19-2006, 06:34 AM
I can't be sure but some of your metas are better interpreted by MSN bots that Google's.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta http-equiv="Revisit-After" content="5 days">
<meta name="Author" content="Hosting Marketers">
<meta name="Copyright" content="Hosting Marketers">
<meta name="Distribution" content="Global">
<meta name="Rating" content="General">
<meta name="Language" content="en-us">
<meta name="Robots" content="index, follow">

At last, to get better referenced in google I would definitivly use robot.txt and sitemap.xml files. You can get more informations on Google's sitemap web site (http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps) (I suggest you to open an account there as well.).


Thanks! .

sam
01-27-2007, 04:20 AM
If you are using any application such as good keywords, you will be able to check link popularity. I have always used it and it seems to be up to date and accurate as I compared it with other tools. Thanks for sharing other online tools.

harrysmith
01-28-2007, 12:58 PM
I would suggest the tool at : www.iwebtool.com/backlink_checker

Bull
01-29-2007, 07:28 AM
Hello. I think that iwebtool provide nice links. Also take a look at prsearch.biz. I have used it.

Mservers
01-29-2007, 12:09 PM
I often check my link on google via entering the site name or url.

sam
02-08-2007, 08:30 AM
Yeah in google you will have to access it by typing link: in the search bar.

for example - link:www. yourdomain.com

Hdr
02-11-2007, 01:35 PM
Cool set of tools, PM me if you know of any more please.

alemcherry
03-05-2007, 11:45 AM
why it happens that I have thousands of links in MSN and only 38 in google?
That is usual. Google reports only few links. To get the actual number of links pointing, use yahoo or MSN.