Hi,

Does someone know how can you check for inbound links, which are not coming from your site ??

when for example I run the search: link:www.stanford.edu all the links pointing to stanford whether or not they are not from stanford pages show. My idea was to get the links coming from within the site by link:www.stanford.edu site:www.stanford.edu and subtract the numbers to know how many links are coming from the outside. However, when I run that search not all the links coming from within the stanfored.edu site shows !!

Does anybody know any other way around that ???

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Mohamed Ibrahim, PhD
Fairfax Realty, Inc.
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This will do it for you:

Go to www.google.com and click on "Advanced Search".

Enter [www yourdomain com] in the "with the exact phrase" without the [] brackets (notice no periods).

Beside Domain select "Don't" return results from the site or domain and then enter [yourdomain.com] without the [] brackets (notice period).

Click the "Google Search" button.

Enjoy!

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Rick Wheat, Wheatworks Software, LLC
CustomCalcs.com : Marketing Software with Your Brand

Thanks for reply...

But, wouldn't that search for the words rather than the link ???

I tried it, and that's what I got. If we use the stanford.edu example....

link:www.stanford.edu 37,500

When I do what you just said, I expect a result less than 37,500 but I get 316,000

Also when I combine both link:www.stanford.edu -site:www.stanford.edu Google processes -site as a command, while it uses the whole link:www.stanford.edu as a keyword rather than a command !!! and it returns 78 highligting "link:www.stanford.edu" as a hit in the search results. So I guess we have to be looking for some other way

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Mohamed Ibrahim, PhD
Fairfax Realty, Inc.
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I've played some more

1. "stanford.edu" (about 27,500,000)
2. "stanford edu" (about 27,500,000)

Periods don't seem to matter.

3. "stanford.edu" -site:stanford.edu (about 2,560,000)
4. allinurl: "stanford edu" -site:stanford.edu (about 308,000)
5. "www.stanford.edu" -site:stanford.edu (about 217,000)
6. allinurl:"www.stanford.edu" -site:www.stanford.edu (about 53,100)
7. link:www.stanford.edu (about 37,500)
8. allinanchor: "stanford edu" -site:stanford.edu (about 15,400)

If I understand what you're looking for, I think (8) is the one you want. It returns all results which have "stanford.edu" in a link on the page that doesn't sit on stanford.edu

9. allinurl: "www stanford edu" -site:stanford.edu (about 1,930)
10. link:www.stanford.edu -site:www.stanford.edu (about 78)
11. link:www.stanford.edu -site:stanford.edu (about 76)
12. link:stanford.edu -site:stanford.edu (about 26)

This has been interesting

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Rick Wheat, Wheatworks Software, LLC
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