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Getting Crafty - Advanced Search Operators to Find the Best Backlinks

Submitted by Brian Gilley on April 16, 2009 - 19:59.

Link Building

I keep seeing virtually the same articles posted on SEO sites that describe using advanced Google search operators to find backlinks, but none get down to actually showing useful examples. Finding backlinks by advanced search operator is something I've been using for the past 5+ years and I can say that it undoubtedly works, especially when consistently acquired over time.

My team and I have built up a list of over 300 of these queries that come in very handy in our quest for links. Below I'll share just a few of these searches that are very specific to link building from popular CMS/blogging platforms and that provide good to moderately good results. Maybe these few will help you find even more crafty variations of your own. You can also read a similar post on building backlinks in social media websites we wote months back:

Link Header Tag to Fix Internal Website Duplication in Google, Yahoo, and MSN

Submitted by Brian Gilley on February 13, 2009 - 18:25.

Search Engines

Internal website duplication has been one of the more common issues with client SEO audit reports. Blogs, ecommerce websites, and any website where the same, if not close to the same, content can be found on one or multiple pages, can benefit from this new <link> tag command to help solve duplication problems. Here's a quick example of how this new tag works.

Let's say you have an ecommerce website with sorting capabilities for product sizes, colors, etc. The same content might appear on these three different URLs:

123example.com/products?itemid=bluewidget
123example.com/products?itemid=bluewidget&sort=123
123example.com/products/bluewidget

Now, you can simply add the <link> tag to specify your preferred version such as:

<link rel="canonical" href="hxxp://www.123example.com/products/bluewidget" />. You would place this inside the <head> section of all of the duplicate content URLs, such as:

Big 'ol List of the Best Website Analytics and Web Stat Tools

Submitted by Brian Gilley on June 27, 2008 - 20:14.

SEO Tools

There are definitely a lot of useful web stat software and tracking tools online. There are also some staples in the industry, like StatsCounter and others. But there are also some newer services and other, not so well known, website stat tools worth reviewing. I left Omniture and a few other larger companies off of the list because I felt they appealed mostly to companies with deeper pockets. The list below is instead suited to the "everyday" Webmaster.

Get Clicky

GetClicky.com - Clicky is a web analysis tool that tracks a high level of detail for every visitor to your website. Some of their website stats show "actions per visit" for users, visitor hostnames, most active visitors, tagcloud stats data, and more. Personally, I would rate this tool a bit higher than Google Analytics, but that's probably because of the deep data it provides. We were very impressed with the free version of Clicky and plan to use this cool web tracking tool more in the coming months.

Measure Map stats