SUBJECT: Backlinks Lesson #3 - How To Perform A Backlink Check On Your Site

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Today we are going to talk about how to perform a backlink check
on your site using Yahoo, so that you can keep track of your
progress.

As we have learned in the last two lessons, building backlinks
to your website is one of the most important activities that you
can do when it comes to improving your SEO (search engine
optimization) and search engine rank.

So, if you've been diligently working on a link building, you're
also probably curious to figure out how many of your links have
been detected by the various search engines. Today I am going to
show you a simple method that you can use to do a backlink check
using Yahoo.

There are many things that go into the result of your website's
final score, but webmasters do know one fact for sure. Something
that will really bring up your website in rank is having a lot
quality backlinks coming from other sites to yours.

We know from lesson one that the search engines use this as
criteria to judge just how good your site is. If you have other
sites linking to you, then it must mean that you have valuable
information that should be ranked highly. If your site is ranked
high, it means that you will come up first in the search engines
when someone does a search for whatever term that is relevant to
your website. This translates to you getting more traffic, more
sales and more income.

Once you have applied some of the different methods of acquiring
backlinks, like: submitting to directories, requesting links,
submitting to article directories, etc. you will want to know if
all of your hard work is paying off and you will definitely want
to keep track of your progress.

One simple way to do that is to check your backlinks on Yahoo.
To do that you just type in "site:www.yoursitename.com" into the
Yahoo search engine. Then click "web search".

When you at the results you will see a button that says
"Inlinks". Just click on this button and you will see the
details about the links that are coming to you. If you want to
filter the results even further to make sure you are viewing
only the links from other websites, then just click on the
drop-down menu that says "from all pages" and change it to
"except from this domain". This will show you all of the links
that are coming to you. You can play around with the other
drop-down options as well.

To get more detail on the links, just click the explore button
next to each link or on each the links themselves and check the
keywords that are being linked to this can also give you more
information about what keywords are working well and more
popular and how to go about your future link building efforts.

Of course there are many other ways that you can check your
progress, but this is a simple way that you can do a backlink
check on Yahoo. By doing this on a regular basis you will be
able to keep an eye on how your link building campaign is doing.

That's it for today's lesson. In your next lesson we are going
to talk about link popularity software that you can use to check
your search engine rank, manage and monitor your backlinks.



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