balam - 12:33 am on May 6, 2004 (gmt 0)

> If 50% of the sites linking to you are not listed in Google, are they really helping you?

If they send you qualified traffic, then the answer is obvious...

silverbytes, how many sites and how big are they, that you are trying to track backlinks from? Is this a one-time search you want to do, or would it be a regular, ongoing thing?

There are so many options available to do what you want... If it's a small number of pages you want to check, just save the pages and do a local text search for your domain name in the files.

Scaling up... Have your browser crawl the site, then do a text search.

Download an open-source spider, and (politely) let it loose on the sites you're interested in... Then text search.