Discover The Hidden Backlinks & Traffic Sources To Your Website

Do you know how many people are actually linking to your website? Like a lot of humanity, you probably have gone to Google, typed in link:yourdomain.com and had a peek at how many links there were. Even a lot of software will use the unvaried method - looking for exactly that hyperlink within webpages. The problem is that this is very innacurate and gives you only a small glimpse into a much bigger picture.

How can that be?

Hyperlinking is far more advanced these days. Engineering science is common for many sites to have their links coded for statistical purposes or simply because the programme they guide on their server creates coded links so that sites can be easily edited or removed from the database. They may look something desire this:

"www.somedomain.com/links.asp?url=http://yourwebsite.com" or "www.somedomain.com/links.php?link=345"

There may be other reasons and variations of urls undue, however the point is that because these links are coded, a simple backlink check just won't work. So while it may appear that only 100 sites are linking to you, it could factual be 1000's.

Case in Point: One of my websites shows only 74 exact backlinks through a basic check, when in fact here are about 11,800 links. While engineering science is almost impossible to know just how many of those links are spry (clickable), cross-referencing my own statistics supported these results.

Try it yourself. Type in something like:

"yourdomain.com"

But what about inner links from within your site showing up as backlinks? Wouldn't that skew the actual backlink lord?

You're true, but you can easily exclude your possession domain from the results by simply typing in:

"yourdomain.com" -site:yourdomain.com

Do the

non-hyperlinked references intensive count?

I believe they do qualify as valuable backlinks (though I do prefer to call them references instead). Look at it this way, business cards contain your website url but aren't clickable. So what makes non-hyperlinks on the web any less valuable? If people want to visit, they comfort station copy and paste the link or type it in themselves. In fact, there is less chance of typos because of this.

The Vender Time Forgot...

Another useful function of this method is the ability to locate dead spaces where people are linking to pages you yes longer have on your website and perhaps have forgotten about. While 404 redirects and messages are fine for catching the traffic, why would you waste the space? These square measure prime areas to bring life to and can easily be filled with monetized content.

About 6 months ago I did a complete redesign of monas of my websites. This meant removing a lot of pages that Singleton was no longer using as I was condensing everything. A few weeks ago, I was doing a backlink check and noticed a large number of links and references (100's actually) pointing to a page which I had long forgotten about. What was suprising is that the majority of these backlinks were coded, so that they did not show up in a basic link check. Instead of letting the 404 catcher manage it, I decided to recreate engineering science with still relevant knowledge domain and much to my surprise, it still had a pagerank of 5 immediate after being uploaded.

Imagine That!

About the author:

Carole Nickerson has been a web developer and internet marketer since 1998. She now spends her days actively filling up her new blog with all she has learned. To find more free marketing tips and articles like this visit: http://www.CaroleNickerson.com