Who Links to Your Competitors?

Filed in: Microsoft, SEO Beginner, Yahoo! — March 20th, 2006

SEOmoz revealed a very useful search engine trick to find link partners who link to your competitors WITHOUT linking to you.

The search trick uses a special search operator (“linkdomain”) found in MSN and Yahoo. Sorry, Google does not support it. Google can use “link:” to check domain’s incoming links but it does not work in this trick.

Sample search:

The following search string will find websites that link to yahoo.com AND msn.com WITHOUT linking to google.com.

(linkdomain:yahoo.com linkdomain:msn.com) (-linkdomain:google.com)

Yahoo result | MSN result

Bonus: use (intitle:KeyWord) to narraw the search to keywords in page title.

My two cents

This is good trick to find high quality link partners who are linking to your competitors. High quality, because high ranking websites are listed at top of the search result.

However, I found that the results were not so accurate. I guess it is because I am using popular domains to search, and websites update faster than search engines’ cache rate.

[Source: SEOmoz, via sitepoint blog]

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  • http://www.syiok.com/ Malaysia Property

    you mean you insert linkdomain:competitordomain.com right?

    try link:www.comeptitordomain.com at google

  • http://www.syiok.com Malaysia Property

    you mean you insert linkdomain:competitordomain.com right?

    try link:www.comeptitordomain.com at google

  • anonymous

    For google
    use ->

    link:www.xxx.com

  • anonymous

    For google
    use ->

    link:www.xxx.com

  • LcF

    Google’s “link:domain.com” checks incoming links to the domain.

    Can you check websites that link to competitor websites BUT not link to you, using “link:domain.com” ?

  • LcF

    Google’s “link:domain.com” checks incoming links to the domain.

    Can you check websites that link to competitor websites BUT not link to you, using “link:domain.com” ?

  • http://www.submit88.com/ search engine guru

    Google’s link:domain.com does not show all incoming links to your website. I think they do this on purpose.

  • http://www.submit88.com search engine guru

    Google’s link:domain.com does not show all incoming links to your website. I think they do this on purpose.

  • http://www.sgx-online.com/ sgx singapore

    Google link check only shows partial number of links. Google has lots of secrets and this is one of them.

  • http://www.sgx-online.com sgx singapore

    Google link check only shows partial number of links. Google has lots of secrets and this is one of them.

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