How to Quickly Find Out Who's Linking to Your Website

By Candice Pardue

Heard of backlinks?

Who's linking to you online?

The following article lists some simple, informative tips that will help you have a better experience with backlinks.

Find Out Who's Promoting You All Over the Web - In Just 2 Minutes!

The Strategy First (first things first)

As you begin marketing your online business, you will want to know if it's really working. You've probably read about how link trades and resource pages work. You can contact other "similar" businesses to request a link exchange. You will link to them and in return, they will link to you.

It's a free, easy way to begin driving traffic to your site. Several years ago, I started my business with no promotional funds - just hands, feet, and a computer!!! :-) I really had no knowledge of web promotions and neither did anyone else.

Online, it works just as well - maybe even better since your website isn't sitting on a literal highway with traffic of cars driving by.

2 Key Ways to create word of mouth about your website

1. Contact similar sites to yours for a link exchange.

Develop a plan that will be consistent and continual. I still exchange links with other sites even though I have many linking to my site already. There are always new sites to partner with. The Internet is constantly moving.

Be sure to have a "links" or "resources" page ready BEFORE contacting your potential partners. This will allow you to show them where their link will be placed. *PACK* your "links" page with significant content, links to your own site pages, and HTML keywords that will drive visitors to your page.

Submit the page to the major search engines

You can use the free service at:

http://www.submitexpress.com/

Make it a point to contact so many potential partners per day.

Find the most targeted sites you can find that will reach your potential customers.

You may want to contact at least 5 people per day to build a steady stream of contacts - or more when you're able. You can set your own goals based upon your time availability.

2. Provide lots of relevant content within your site

This is one thing that has made my website a success - content! I would have to say it's the major avenue of my promotions because most of my traffic comes through others linking to my various pages and search engines linking to various pages within my site (articles, tutorials, resource pages, etc.).

If you can make it a goal to add at least one new web page per week to your site that goes well with your product, theme or site goal, you will have 52 pages at the end of the year. There's a lot of "linking" potential with 52 pages, wouldn't you say??

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These two avenues of promotion will build traffic to your site if you are consistent with your efforts. I must say - it's worth it!

You may not consider everything you just read to be crucial information about backlinks. But don't be surprised if you find yourself recalling and using this very information in the next few days.

*** Now - the FUN Part!!! I bet you thought I would never tell...

As you promote your site using these avenues, there's a quick way to find out who's linking to your website or in other words, who's promoting your site free by word of mouth!!

This tool is free - but not many people know it's available.

Simply go to the search engine Alta Vista at the link provided below:

http://www.altavista.com/

Next, type in the phrase below at the search box... (Note: substitute the letters "abc" with your site name)

After typing the phrase into the search box, click "find" to do the search.

The websites that appear should be the sites that are linked to yours.

It's that simple!!

Give it a try today in between chores to find out who's promoting your site by word of mouth. Keep checking back for increases in links as you contact other website owners and add content to your site.

A new development in finding who is linking to you, finding the competition. and doing something about it for success is available when you join these link partners. I am a member now and really happy I found this site!

Happy Hunting!!!

Now might be a good time to take down the main points you've learned about backlinks covered above. The act of putting it all on paper will help you remember the important facts about backlinks.

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Article written by Candice Pardue, web content writing services and owner of Online Success for Internet Business. Go here to learn web design from start to finish. This one's for beginners...

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