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Excerpt: This is not really new but it is really useful and something that many SEOs are unaware of. We all know about Google’s advanced search operators that allow you to refine your search in such a way as to search for links in Google and pages that have been indexed. Yahoo’s Site Explorer offers an easy to use link finder but two search modifiers are available from the Yahoo search bar. These are: site: linkdomain: Used in combination they can be used to create powerful link analysis queries. linkdomain:seothegame.com -site:seothegame.com This will create a search for the links that are connected to the domain…

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Excerpt: Introduction When you are looking at a site for the first time or you need to see how your SEO campaign is going you can get an idea of the strength of a site to a indeed your competitors site using a backlink analysis program. There are quite a few out there. The basic information you need to know include: the number of links pointing to the site, the link URL, the anchor text, the number of outbound links, whether the link is followed or not. Additional useful information would include a measure of the link quality. Most use PageRank either from…