Measuring link popularity

If you want to measure the link popularity of your Busby SEO Test Web site against other Busby SEO Test participants, there is nothing better than the online Link Popularity Check tools by various companies. This free online facility allows you to input the URL of your Web site while providing you back with a precise report of the total number of inbound links as measured across all of the major search engines. You can compare your site with lots of personally selected competitors in addition to pre-selected list of the popular destinations on the Web.

Measuring link popularity is important to know before attempting to submit to search engines. Track down your referral links from by using search engines. This method will give you an idea of how “popular” a search engine believes your web site is to them. That’s important for those search engines that rank sites in part by the site’s link popularity. Some sites are Google, AOL Search, HotBot, IWon, MSN Search, LookSmart, Inktomi, Alta Vista, and Northern Light.

However, there is no way you can exclude links from pages within the mysite.com domain from being counted.

Google considers www.my-busby-seo-test-blog.com to be different from my-busby-seo-test-blog.com. This means that typing in link: my-busby-seo-test-blog.com will not include the links to www.my-busby-seo-test-blog.com. If you want to find out the number of links to www.my-busby-seo-test-blog.com, you have to type in link: www.my-busby-seo-test-blog.com. And typing in link: www.my-busby-seo-test-blog.com will not include the links to my-busby-seo-test-blog.com either.

This is in contrast to AltaVista which includes links to the www.my-busby-seo-test-blog.com domain when you try to find the number of links to my-busby-seo-test-blog.com.