A doubt

Marketing
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Hello everyone,
I am having a doubt. Is it possible to count the number of links to a website even when we dont own the site?

Thanks in advance,
Nandakumar

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I think it is possible. There are some sitemap generator sites. You can easily put your desired website address and will count the number of links.

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yes.search google for some seo site most of them provide free online tools which can give you many useful info about any site you want to get info about

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I am yet to come across such a website. Can you give me specific website names please?

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Simply put, no. While you can measure many of the links coming to a site with google or a supposed backlink tracker, those can’t see private links and the explosion of social networks and communities, that can amount to a huge amount of traffic.

For larger sites services like hitwise can apply their sampling methodology to infer where traffic comes from as they’re measuring the user rather than the links.

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do you mean backlink? bluebacklink have it

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There are various tools available which will show you some of the links to other sites, but none that can be relied upon to give an actual count. They all have different methods for gathering the data and all return different results.

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or any other analytic data

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I am having a doubt. Is it possible to count the number of links to a website even when we dont own the site?

:smiley:

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You can see the location of where these anchor texts are linking to, but see the number of links? You can try semrush,seo quake.

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I dont mean backlinks. I just want the number of links to any given given website, say i type in [noparse]www.manutd.com[/noparse], i should get a result displaying the number of links from other sites to manutd.com

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@ozsubasi : Can you name any such tools, as even an approximate number is enough

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As I mentioned in my previous post this simply isn’t possible to do accurately for any given site. The number of “hidden” links is growing so unless you can tap into ISP level data [which will tell you site sources, not pages], you just will miss a potentially huge part of the puzzle.

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All webmasters like to know links to their websites, and there are many tools out there. If you know the website url, then it is easy to get a vague number of the links, but it is difficult to get a very accurate number.

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Hello lonking,
Can you please name a few of those tools since a vague number is enough for us.

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Such as web link validator, screaming frog seo spider, there are a lot of resources on the internet, and you will find a tool that is your taste.
It is not very difficult to find backlinks of other websites, what difficult is how to make them link back to your website.

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You mean backlinks or what?

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The type of links is clearly explained by the original poster if you read the thread.

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Open Site Explorer is one, SEOspyglass is another. The free versions will give you a total number but will only show details of a limited number of them, but as you are only looking for a link count, that shouldn’t matter. Also, although they each give different results, if you are looking at comparisons between sites then as long as you use the same tool for each site that may be ok for your needs. From my personal experience OSE finds more links than Spyglass.

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Open Site Explorer only counts number of the external links, but it is not able to show the urls of the external links. But the interesting thing is it enables you to compare your website with your competitors’ websites.