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Video: How to tell how many links my site has

Mark asked,

What is the best way to determine where all of your incoming links are coming from?

Here’s my video response

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Data Quality Tools July 1, 2010 at 2:34 am

I use Yahoo! site explorer a lot. But the number of results can get overwhelming. How do you manage this and how do you manage monitoring links fo your top-10 competitors over time?

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Nick Stewart July 2, 2010 at 1:37 am

I also felt that trying to keep up with competitors was overwhelming. To be honest, I stopped worrying about competitors and started focusing more on build quality content.

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Orchid Flowers Help July 1, 2010 at 6:28 pm

@data quality tools

when using site explorer you can also download the first 1,000 links.

Import this into Excel and

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Orchid Flowers Help July 1, 2010 at 6:38 pm

== sorry, somehow the previous was posted before I finished ==

About the import into Excel,

open file, select 'delimited' in the import wizard, click next 2 times, click finish.

You get an Excel sheet with page title, url, size and format of the web page hosting that link.

You can now easily sort it or create pivot tables from it, so the data is more manageable for you.

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mark July 3, 2010 at 1:09 am

Hey Nick,

Thanks for the response. Now that I know this, I am going to have to go figure out what micro formats and dublin core are (thanks to air conditioning, if that is his real name).

This is a great series of videos.

Thanks again & have a great day!

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How to Speak Japanes July 8, 2010 at 2:47 am

Why search for the phrase "Yahoo Site Explorer" in Google?

Do you know that you can do searches with Yahoo.com , too? :) :)

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Nick Stewart July 9, 2010 at 1:32 am

Very nice. I did not know this.

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selling textbooks July 13, 2010 at 2:16 am

I haven't used Yahoo yet but it looks good I normally just go to the Google search bar and type site :www.something.com

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Wind-lock September 28, 2010 at 5:56 am

Great video, Nick! I was unaware of this very useful tool. Looks like we have some work to do to get some more inbound links to our company blog. Thanks again!
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Nick Stewart September 29, 2010 at 12:30 am

Glad you found this so useful!

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