How to search for linked websites on Google

[Jon12345]

I want to determine which sites are linking to me on Google. But when I do link:www.mysite.com I also get my links in there too.

How can I do that search but exclude links from pages in my own domain?

Thanks,

Jon

[jackofalltrades]

Do a google search for www.yourdomain.com and click on sites that use the phrase "www.yourdomain.com".

It will give you a rough idea (it wont include the sites that dont use your domain as link text).

If you have a unique brand name, you could try searching for that.

JOAT

[lazerzubb]

I'm not sure you can do that, since it doesn't matter if it's internal or external sites that are linking to you in the PageRank forumula.

I suggest that you try using alltheweb.com they sometimes present better results, try using the link: and link.all: commando there and you will see very good results.

[Jon12345]

lazerzubb,

Are you saying that you can improve your page rank by just creating more internal pages linking to your home page?

[lazerzubb]

Jon, yes PageRank (the formula) is specific to each individual page, and Google doesn't care if it's an internal or external page where the link come from.
However they may treat them differently in other aspects but from a PageRank point of view they are treated the same.

If you want to read more how PageRank works i suggest:
[www-db.stanford.edu...]

[Mohamed_E]

I like to keep a list of the sites that Google shows as linking to me, even though it is incomplete. I remove my own pages to reduce clutter. Here is how I do it:

1. Go to Advanced Search on Google, set to 100 results per page.
   
2. Do link:my.site.com
   
3. Save As html file (one or more pages)
   
4. Edit saved file(s) to remove lots of junk as well as links from my pages. Easiest to do using UNIX utilities, but can be done with a text editor.
   

Using UNIX utilities (sed plus grep, not really worth using perl) it takes less than five minutes total time from entering the link command to viewing an HTML list of those who link to me.

[MeditationMan]

If you use the advanced search option on Google you can opt "Don't return results from the site or domain: www.mysite.com".

I'm not sure how accurate the results are. The figures don't seem to add up when I've done this.

Bodhipaksa

[lazerzubb]

MeditationMan, are you talking about something like this:
link:www.google.com -site:www.google.com
?

This is not correct results (i can ensure you that Google doesn't have 252 inbound links ;) )

[MeditationMan]

Forgot to add, your search term should be "http://www.mysite.com" rather than "link:http://www.mysite.com".

The final search term is therefore "http://www.mysite.com -site:www.mysite.com".

This *should* throw up all pages that contain a link to you but exclude pages from your own site.

Bodhipaksa