What tools are best to track links into a domain?

Now ATW has been switched off, we need alternatives

[Receptional]

Tracking inbound links has been a bit of a passion of mine - especially using the advanced features of the now defunct All the web. With Alta Vista heading the same way (although apparantly the link: notation still works for the moment) it is starting to look like a barren wasteland of non-information. With Google I can't seem to filter out internal links from the results (am I missing a syntax?) so my question is what other ways do people have for tracking inbound links to a domain?

Dixon.

[howiejs]

I have been thinking about the same thing
I have found that in yahoo
linkdomain:

returns in my category - 10x links for google link:

[brotherhood of LAN]

log files also helpful...

If you have a few sites you could maybe work out 'roughly' how many links dont appear in the logs, e.g. maybe 20% of pages that link to you never give a referral.....else your backlinks naturally appear in the logs.

Give or take 'no referrer' or false referrers you could find a decent % of your backlinks IMO.

//added

Redirect scripts wouldnt help the cause either, but the gist is more or less the same....

[Receptional]

I use link data mostly to track the competitors, not myself - although we do now have a client where we are paid by the link - which was probably not so clever in hindsight...

The Alexa toolbar has link data. Does Teoma?

Dixon.