Dropping Old Site Alias

finding who still uses it to link to my site?

[dcheney]

Howdy,

I've got a biggish site that is now (for several months) had its own domain. Almost all inbound links use this new name. However, in the past, I was using a free hosting service for the site with a very long URL (even I couldn't remember it) - so I had a couple of aliases (free short url's) pointing to it. Of course, when the site moved to the new domain I updated the aliases.

Ok, now I'd like to kill of the aliases (they no longer have a purpose). But I can tell from my logs that some people do use them. But when I try to search for who's using the aliases in google (link:alias) it returns all links to the current domain name. Any idea how to locate just those inbound links using the old aliases?

[Giacomo]

Try using AllTheWeb's advanced search feature. It usually returns many more back links than a link: search on Google.

[dcheney]

hmm, just checking it out. I don't see anything similar to google's link: - am I missing something?

** Nevermind, figured it out! Thanks **