How to locate a back link
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GWT says that a large popular site with DA 70 has a link to one of our recently published pages. Is it possible to find the location of that link using GWT? I don't think the SEOmoz tools can find it, perhaps because our page is too new.
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Thanks! I needed to drill down that final link.
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Christopher -
Wow. So simple, but so helpful! Thanks.
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Pretty cool tip, actually. Somehow I've never seen this before.
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I don't know how many links you have to this page, but if you view the individual page in G.A you can look at "Landing Page Sources" and then "Entrance Sources" (Right hand side of the page). You would obviously need to work out which of those links has the high D.A, but it's a start.
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You can try entering your website URL into Google like http://www.mysiterocks.com and hit search. On the left of the search results, click on "More Tools" and then select a time frame like past 24 hours or past week. You can often find pages that recently linked to you.
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What about Yahoo Site Explorer? I'm not sure how it matches up next to Open Site Explorer, but it's worth a shot. Also, you could potentially use Google to find it, with a query like "site:www.domain.com your website name" or even using the link operator if your website name isn't necessarily on the page or in the anchor text.
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From your Google WMT panel select your site. On the left sidebar you will find Your Site On The Web > Links To Your Site.
Underneath Who Links The Most there will be the names of linking sites. If you do not see the site name listed click MORE. Once you locate the site, click the site's name which will be a link. The new page will show the number of links from the site, and the pages to which the site is linking. Click on any of the pages underneath YOUR PAGES. The resulting page will show a breakdown of the pages which are linking to your website. Click on any of the page names and you will be taken to the site.
If you are not able to immediately locate the link, you can right-click on the page, choose View Page Source and then search the source code for your link.
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