How to find my backlinks?

WIll a spider help?

[Advenlo]

My link development started slowly but now it's pace is starting to gather. As a consequence I need to be more efficient.

I'm now on top of the link requests, documenting them and associated replies. But how do people keep track of those sites that link back but don't tell you?

I'm thinking of one of those sites where they have an add url form and ask you to reciprocate. I don't want to delete their link if they have reciprocated but also don't want to check their entire directory on the off chance they have linked back.

Is there a spidering tool (or something else) which will tell me if there is a link to my site on any particular website's pages?

Thanks in advance

[RonPK]

Hi,
Try searching for

link:your.domain.com site:that.particular.site

at alltheweb

[Advenlo]

Many thanks, presumably that requires the relevant page to have been respidered since my link was included, is there an alternative or am I misunderstanding the command?

[RonPK]

Yeah, the link to your site needs to be in alltheweb's index. So the linking site has to be spidered first.

I don't know of any tool that spiders a site on command. Can't see how it should work, either: on large sites it would eat lots of bandwidth OR take almost forever to run.

[edit:] Well, there is Xenu Link Sleuth. But that is not designed specifically for this purpose.