Link Checking & Link Popularity Checkers
Link Checking
Search engines like links. Not only do they use them to move between Web pages and Web sites, but many search engines use links to help them gauge a Web site's popularity. The theory being that the more links you have pointing to your Web site from other third-party sites, the more popular your Web site is and the more online 'votes' you have received. Aside from usability issues, it's important, therefore, to ensure that the links are your Web site are up to date and functional.
Here you will find handy link checking tools and tips on how to check your link popularity:
- Xenu Link Sleuth (http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html)
Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on "normal" links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time.
How to Manually Check your Link Popularity
Your Google link popularity refers to the number of links Google finds for your Web site (note: this may not necessarily be all of them). To find out how many links Google finds for site using Google itself, simply:
- Select the version of Google you want to use (e.g. google.com, google.co.nz, google.co.uk etc)
- Enter link:www.yourdomain.com into the search box
Yahoo!
Again, your Yahoo! link popularity refers to the number of links Yahoo! find for your Web site. Yahoo! also offers you the option of finding links from all page and from pages other than your domain and sub-domains.
- Select the version of Yahoo! you want to use (e.g. yahoo.com, au.yahoo.com, uk.yahoo.com etc)
- Enter link:www.yourdomain.com into the search box
Link Popularity Checking Tools
Now you can asses your link popularity, you may be wondering how many links you need. The Market Leap tool is particularly useful for this, as it can benchmark your link popularity against your industry and selected competition. You should remember if you embark on a program of increasing your links, that not all links are of equal merit.
- SEO Logic Link Check (http://www.seologic.com/faq/link-popularity-check.php)
Offers a monthly link check reporting service and manual checks to major search engines from one handy page. - NZS.com Site Profile ( http://www.nzs.com/site-profile/ )
The NZS.com Site Profile is an innovative information tool that helps you discover how your New Zealand website is interacting with the rest of the New Zealand Web.
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