Find Competitor Backlinks with MSN Live – SEO Tip Week 46
Update 1/15/08: This feature is no longer working with MSN Live.
Check on the backlinks from your competitors is part of the competitive analysis of any good SEO consultant or “expert”. Up until recently using Yahoo to research competitor backlinks was the only search engine you could do this in effectively. Well, now Live.com is also back in the game and showing you backlinks to websites. But they also have a nice trick for using keywords to narrow your search.
If you visit Live.com and search for the following: +linkdomain:www.bigoakinc.com “seo tips” you will be show search results that have links pointing to bigoakinc.com and also have the phrase ‘seo tips’ on that page that links to bigoakinc.com. Be sure to include the plus sign (+) at the front or else you won’t get any results. You can click this link to see the Live.com search results for yourself: +linkdomain:www.bigoakinc.com “seo tips”.
This can be an extremely useful research tool and adding the keyword phrase to the search makes it a even more valuable tool in your SEO toolbox.
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8 Responses to “Find Competitor Backlinks with MSN Live – SEO Tip Week 46”
By just a guy (5 comments.) on Nov 20, 2007 | Reply
Great tip and much fun. The keyword addition is really nice. I’ll waste lots of time reviewing this on all my site.
thanks!
By web design Longview (1 comments.) on Nov 27, 2007 | Reply
Ah very good. I was wondering what the trick for MSN was, but hadn’t really looked into it. Thanks
By DNL (18 comments.) on Jan 14, 2008 | Reply
Is not working today…maybe was working back when you wrote the post. I tried with many sites and keywords and nothing.
By Shell Harris (164 comments.) on Jan 15, 2008 | Reply
Live.com is no longer allowing this to work. Shame, it was a very nice feature.
By Kevin (1 comments.) on Feb 14, 2008 | Reply
Good post, it’s always good to know who is linking to your competitor.
By Hello (6 comments.) on Jun 10, 2008 | Reply
great article, a sites competition is really what to compete against and not really the search engine algorithm.
By Anguyen (1 comments.) on Sep 30, 2008 | Reply
They have since started http://webmaster.live.com/ where you can verify your site like Google and check backlinks.
By Andy (1 comments.) on Jun 11, 2009 | Reply
Thanks, good article! Maybe someone needs backlinkchecker? Try http://www.BackLinkStat.com.