Backlinks

Researching Backlinks – There are a few really good reason why knowing who is linking to your site could help you rank even better but how do you do that?

You see the internet has billions of pages all indexed by the search engines and all these pages have a number of other peoples sites linking back to them. The search engines analyse those links and use that analysis to determine your rank position. This is done on number of links and authority of links.

Knowing who’s linking to your site can help you decide who to contact in order to better help them link back to you. This is one great way of building affiliates, if they already lank back to your site for free, how much more effort would they put in if you compensated them for that effort.

You can also discover broken links quickly; fixing these links can help you with your ranking as well.

Up until recently many people used Yahoo’s site explorer which gave a comprehensive list of all the back links to your site. Now that’s gone we need to find some alternatives so here are a few which could strengthen your ranking.