Want to find inbound links to a blog via Google Blog Search? Preface the URL of your (or anyone’s) blog with link: — like this:
Try it yourself. It looks like you can also get the inbound link results as an RSS feed as well.
(Yes, I know links are only a surrogate for quality and that solutions are under development… )
UPDATE: Alert reader Nick W. points out that there are a number of other operators that are available in addition to link: . These operators are:
- cache:
- link:
- related:
- info:
- define:
- stocks:
- site:
- allintitle:
- intitle:
- allinurl:
- inurl:
In addition, there are a number of new blog-specific operators:
- inblogtitle:
- inposttitle:
- inpostauthor:
- blogurl:
Many of these are not available from the advanced search page, but must be entered directly.
Not a hack.
That’s a standard search operator – all the major SE’s have something similar actually 🙂
You **should** be able to combine it with another operator to weed out internal links, but for some reason, the last time i tried it it did not work. It would like like this:
link:www.example.com -site:www.example.com
You can also do
blogurl:www.example.com
which will function much the same as the [site] operator does in normal search and will give you an idea of how many pages are indexed.
more here:
http://www.google.com/help/about_blogsearch.html#operators
Nick
thats for sure, bro