who is linking to me?

how do I search in backward links for a URL

[jpavery]

how do I search backward links to see if a URl is linking to me...
one URL I have has 600 inbound links... within there I want to see Google has picked up a new link from a new URL

how?
Thanks,
JP

[hanewich]

Use Google's link function. Type:

link: yoururl.com

[jpavery]

I got link: your_url.com - not a problem -

but in the results there are 600 results... so how do I tell out of those 600 if a www.not_my_url.com link to my www.your_url.com has been noted by google?

[John_Caius]

If you type link:www.example.com then you get a list of pages. That means two things:

1) each of those pages links to www.example.com
2) each of those pages (usually) has a PageRank of at least 4.

If you don't get a list of pages then it means that there are no links to www.example.com with a PR of at least 4.

Oh, and the fact that a page is in that list by definition means that it has been "noted by Google", i.e. Google is aware of it and uses it to calculate your ranking.

[jpavery]

am I speaking Greek? Or just doing a poor job a communicating?

When I check the backward links on my site there are over 600 inbound links.

Last week a PR 8 site posted a link to my home page. I want to know if Google has found that link.

How do I find out if Google has found this link?
JP ;)

[John_Caius]

You need to wait a month. The soon-to-be-declared deep crawl should pick up the link. Then it will be recognised in the full update at the end of February.

[ah, now I understand... :)]

[uber_boy]

I think jpavery's point is being overlooked here. As I understand it, the question has to do with finding out whether a particular referrer is amongst a site's list of backlinks. Personally, I know of no way to do this, but I'd be interested in learning how if someone else knows how to do it.

[John_Caius]

"Last week a PR 8 site posted a link to my home page"

I think that's the main reason why it won't turn up in the link:www.example.com command at the moment.

As to hunting through the results, the alternative is to do a site search on this PR8 site for your domain name or link text - see whether Google can find it. Once again, it won't do for another month, unless freshbot helps out.

[John_Caius]

So you'd type:

site:www.theirsite.com www.yoursite.com

or

site:www.theirsite.com [your link anchor text]