The number of backlinks to your site or blog is an important measure of the importance of your site. Google uses the number and quality of backlinks to give a Page Rank to your site. However the number of backlinks counted by Google are not updated frequently.


To have a more frequent measure of your site's performance you can count the number of Yahoo backlinks to your blog or any site. First it would be helpful to have submitted your blog to Yahoo and got it verified by putting in the new Yahoo Site Authentication metatag in your template........




To see the number of links from all pages to your entire site just type this in the address bar of your browser :

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch?p=BLOG_URL&bwm=i&bwmo=&bwmf=s


Replace 'BLOG_URL' with the link of your blog excluding 'http://'. Then hit Enter key on keyboard. For example :

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch?p=betabloggerfordummies.blogspot.com&bwm=i&bwmo=&bwmf=s


will show links from all pages to my entire site.





To see the number of links except from this subdomain to entire site use :

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch?p=BLOG_URL&bwm=i&bwmo=s&bwmf=s


Replace 'BLOG_URL' with the link of your blog excluding 'http://'. Then hit Enter key on keyboard.





To see the number of links from all pages to only this url use :

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch?p=BLOG_URL&bwm=i&bwmo=&bwmf=u

Replace 'BLOG_URL' with the link of your blog excluding 'http://'. Then hit Enter key on keyboard.





To see the number of links except from this subdomain to only this url use :

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch?p=BLOG_URL&bwm=i&bwmo=s&bwmf=u

Replace 'BLOG_URL' with the link of your blog excluding 'http://'. Then hit Enter key on keyboard.






To see the number of links except from this domain to entire site use :

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch?p=BLOG_URL&bwm=i&bwmo=d&bwmf=s

Replace 'BLOG_URL' with the link of your blog excluding 'http://'. Then hit Enter key on keyboard.






To see the number of links except from this domain to only this url use :

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch?p=BLOG_URL&bwm=i&bwmo=d&bwmf=u

Replace 'BLOG_URL' with the link of your blog excluding 'http://'. Then hit Enter key on keyboard.




This method can be used to see number of Yahoo inlinks for any site or blog.