How do you find out what (and when) new websites are linking to your site?
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I may be missing the obvious here, but is there any way (a programme or site) of seeing what new links come into your site?
Obviously as anyone who works in SEO, I like to see which links we have got with the work we put in contacting webmasters, etc. But is there a better way than just manually looking through ALL the links?
Any help will appreciated.
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MajesticSEO.com has a free tool that gives you new backlinks per day to your site. I'm not a subscriber so I don't know if you pay if they will tell you which backlinks they discovered.
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If you are using WP then its fairly easy, as you get inbound pings.
However, for non blogging platforms, its usually a good idea to set up a referring sites filter in your analytics, you should be able to spot referrals from sites that link to you, even if it is just a single referral... Doesnt cat them all, but does catch a fair few...
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Ah sorry, I misunderstood.
For links I personally tend not to trust automated apps or websites they mess everything up if they get it wrong, and rely purely on manual searching here through OSE, Yahoo and Webmaster tools.
Regards,
Andy
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Hi, thanks for the reply.
Yes I use it a lot. I mean't something which would tell me the new links automatically with maybe a date when they were crawled and discovered to be linking to any sites I work on.
Thanks again.
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