Backlinks are an important SEO component when building your website or blog and it is very easy to check backlinks to your website or blog.

Let’s see how simple it is to identify who is linking to you.

Having other websites linking to yours is a very important SEO factor. A link back to your website is a form of citation or vote for your website.

It is not enough however just to have many websites linking to your however. What really matters is the quality and relevance of the websites linking back to you. This can have a BIG impact on your websites’ rankings.

Let’s find out how many websites are linking to yours.

The 1st way is to use Google.

In Google, you need to type “link:http://www.yourdomain.com” Let’s see an example here => IWedi Web Directory Google Backlink Check

As of this post, there are 12 websites linking back to IWedi Web Directory on Google.

The 2nd way to get backlink information is to use Yahoo.

In Yahoo, you need to type “linkdomain:www.yourdomain.com” Let’s see and example here => IWedi Web Directory Yahoo Backlink Check

As of this post, there are 1464 websites linking back to IWedi Web Directory on Yahoo.

We can conclude that Yahoo gives more backlink information than Google. So use Google to check your backlink information and Yahoo to check for more detailed backlink information.

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