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What's the command for EXCLUDING links from the host domain ?
I've tried adding "-url:sitename.com" and "-site:sitename.com", with and without the full URL, and it doesn't work in Google.
Another problem is that there are two different domains that I need to exclude. Can I do this in one command ?
Any ideas ?
Someone posted a few months ago: put the number of results to 100, at least then the non-internal links are grouped together a bit better.
I use "sitename.com" -site:sitename.com -site:sitename2.com it gives you links and reference points
DaveN
Over 2,000 reduced to 85 external inbound links !!
Brilliant, just what I was after.
Thanks for your help.
The trick given by Dave is helpful. However, links with an anchor that includes a keyword and not your site's name, will not be SERPed.
I use Alltheweb's advanced search to look for external links excluding my own site links. The trouble is of course it's not exactly the same database as Google's, and it's not synchronised. But from my experience, it's quite accurate.
not sure what you mean, but I do know that Google only includes links which have at least a PR3 (I think), so there are many others that won't be included.
I look at Fast results too, but the numbers are so much smaller. I also find their their advanced search results confusing to use.
Is there a way of doing the one command thing (like Google) with Fast ?
If you are looking for "sitename.com" -site"sitename.com" on Google, you get only external inbound links which have "sitename.com" as link anchor.
If you have a external inbound link to sitename.com on a site, but have used a keyword like "widgets" as link anchor, not the "sitename.com", this link will not appear as Google will not find "sitename.com" on this page. I hope I am not too confusing.
Regarding the Fast advanced search page, personally I like it. You just look for link.all:sitename.com and you exclude the domain sitename.com in the 'exclude domain' field.
My experience shows in some cases Fast finds much more links than Google (even counting the ones not shown and lower than PR3), in other cases it's the other way around.
I mostly take a look at both Google and Fast.
In this one case, I don't think that'll exclude any links because I haven't optimised any inbound links for this website, and you can be sure that random linking sites will almost never use anchor text to link to another site.
I too use Fast in addition to Google, mainly because they seem to include quite a lot of links that Google doesn't. My problem with the advance search is when you try to save the results. I need to save SERPS to a local file so that I can run a Link Extractor on it and produce a plain text file of all linking pages.
When I save the advanced search SERPs from Fast, I get all this extra crap to do with the filters, and then I have to manually delete it from the saved file. Guess I'm just lazy :-)
