How to Check Your Backlinks on Yahoo!

If youve been out there building links to your website for some time now, you may be wondering how many of your links have actually been picked up by the search engines. This is a very legitimate question to have! There are several different things you can do to find out how many backlinks have been picked up by a search engine, but today were going to focus on how to check how many backlinks Yahoo! says that you have.

Before we get started, you need to keep in mind that you may have built more links than Yahoo! shows you. Thats the nature of things with search engines. Your links arent picked up the same time they are created. Also, these will only be the links picked up by Yahoo!, Google and the other search engines probably have a different number as well.

So lets get started on how to check your backlinks with Yahoo!.

First, go to Yahoo.com and click inside the search bar. In the search bar you need to type in site:www.yourdomainname.com, replacing the sample domain name with your own of course. Then hit enter or click on Web Search. This will take you to a page in Yahoo! called the Yahoo! Search Site Explorer.

If you go down the page just a little bit, youll see where it says Results, and right below that it says Pages (number) | Inlinks (number). Pages tells you how many pages Yahoo! has found in this website, and Inlinks tells you how many links are coming to the site. But we need to filter this a little bit. So go ahead and click on the tab that says Inlinks.

Once you click on Inlinks youll see two drop down menus. By default they will say From All Pages and Only this URL respectively. This is how we are going to filter the information. The problem is that the number we see right now also includes when we are inter-linking on our own website. In fact, if you scroll down and look at some of the listings, you may see your own website on the list. Well, for backlinks we dont care when were linking to ourself, so click on that first dropdown menu and choose Except from this domain. This will take all of the links from your own site off the list and just leave the links from other websites.

Once you do this the page is going to refresh and the number next to Inlinks will most likely drop. Now we move to the next box that currently says Only this URL. If we leave it like this well see just the links that are coming to the home page. But if you want to see how many links are coming to the entire site, we need to change this second drop down menu to say Entire Site. At this point the page will refresh again and the numbers should change next to Inlinks.

Now you have the number of links that Yahoo! has found that are coming back to the website. If you want to get more information about these actual links youll need to go down the list and click on some of them. See if you can find your link on the page they are referencing and see what phrase is being used as your anchor text. I wouldnt spend a ton of time doing this, but its a very easy way to see if your links are getting picked up by the search engines.

Dan Patterson has been involved in website marketing for several years. He owns several of his own websites and also helps others to begin their own online businesses. You can see more of his tips for e-Commerce at eCommTips.com.

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