Flipping Google
Recently I completed the AIRS Searchlab 2008 course and one of the elements that they discuss is "Flipsearch", finding links to a particular domain.
The facilitator (who was extremely good) let us know that Flipsearches can only be completed in Yahoo! or Exalead with the "linkdomain:" or "link:" commands respectively. She also mentioned that it is completely impossible to perform a flip search through Google, so don't bother trying.
Being a bit of a bull I saw a red rag.
Although it is correct that there is no direct command that will allow you to discover links to a particular domain through Google I thought that there should be a way using a combination of the commands which are available.
The "inanchor:" command combined with the "inurl:" command allows us to access the two areas that are referenced by "link:" or "linkdomain:"
Given that it is simply a matter of creating a rule and removing the original site:
"inanchor:google.com -inurl:google.com"
Unfortunately this is not a perfect replacement for the "link:" command as "inanchor:" references the text within the anchor tags - <a href="google.com">google.com</a> - rather than the actual link itself - <a href="google.com">google.com</a>.
It does, however, open a huge amount of results that are not normally available through Google.
It also works in Live...
Hopefully it will prove useful in your searches.
The facilitator (who was extremely good) let us know that Flipsearches can only be completed in Yahoo! or Exalead with the "linkdomain:" or "link:" commands respectively. She also mentioned that it is completely impossible to perform a flip search through Google, so don't bother trying.
Being a bit of a bull I saw a red rag.
Although it is correct that there is no direct command that will allow you to discover links to a particular domain through Google I thought that there should be a way using a combination of the commands which are available.
The "inanchor:" command combined with the "inurl:" command allows us to access the two areas that are referenced by "link:" or "linkdomain:"
Given that it is simply a matter of creating a rule and removing the original site:
"inanchor:google.com -inurl:google.com"
Unfortunately this is not a perfect replacement for the "link:" command as "inanchor:" references the text within the anchor tags - <a href="google.com">google.com</a> - rather than the actual link itself - <a href="google.com">google.com</a>.
It does, however, open a huge amount of results that are not normally available through Google.
It also works in Live...
Hopefully it will prove useful in your searches.
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Comment by Simon Townsend on April 1, 2008 at 1:10pm -
The main aim was to prove that I'm a smartarse.
There are a number of methods for locating back links and I wanted to show that combinations of commands can be used to create targeted results.
ValidRank appears to be an extremely useful resource. Thank you.
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Comment by Cameron Cronin on April 1, 2008 at 1:04pm - Hey simon is the goal to view a domains back links? (websites are linking back to a specific domain?) If so there are a number of SEO tools that you could utilise such as 'http://www.validrank.com/pages/backlinks-checker.php'.
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Comment by Simon Townsend on March 6, 2008 at 11:23am
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An alternate method which gives more results is "intext:google.com -site:google.com" (note you'd need to use inbody rather than intext when using Live).
Thanks Shally.
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