Link Function at Yahoo! Allows for Other Operators

Ever want a way to quickly check all your .edu backlinks, or backlinks from a specific site? Yahoo! now allows you to do so with the linkdomain command. It is simple, just use the follow syntax linkdomain:www.rustybrick.com inurl:edu to check all your backlinks from .edu sites or linkdomain:www.rustybrick.com site:www.seroundtable.com to find all the backlinks from this site to rustybrick.com. And an other useful feature, is to use the allinanchor to find out who is linking to you with particular keywords, for example linkdomain:www.seroundtable.com allinanchor:blog (doesn't seem to support allinachor after a second look). Outstanding!

I am pretty sure this is new, as is Shawn, who discovered it and posted a thread about this at DigitalPoint Forums. He named the thread Yahoo Allowing Operators With Link Functions. I believe Yahoo! upgraded the command to facilitate the up and coming, Yahoo! Site Explorer product, like they recently did last week with making the link command more accurate. I have not received an official response from Yahoo! about this change, as of yet.

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posted rustybrick in Yahoo! Search Optimization at September 6, 2005 5:33 PM Comments (5)

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Barry - My tools have been advanced queries like this at Yahoo! for over a year - I think they're relatively old. Along with inurl:, you can also use site: - which can be handy for measuring internal linking and terms themselves, so you can see pages on specific topics linking to a site or page.

Posted by randfish at September 6, 2005 18:35

So not new. :) Thanks for letting us know.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at September 6, 2005 19:01

I've been using "linkdomain:website.com -site:abcdefg.com" for about a year to help get link counts and weed out the occasional site-wide link that will skew the aggregate numbers. I've even added three and for "-site:" commands onto the end and it seems to be quite handy.

Posted by Jon Payne at September 7, 2005 14:02

ahh another day another insight to yahoo hacking.. ;p

Posted by evan at September 7, 2005 15:29

yes to Jon Payne the Ephricon master and my PBS partner...that command also works using the domain in question to omit internal links... . Thanks Rusty for the great info about some of the other "hacks," as I think they are called.

Posted by Chris B at September 8, 2005 16:53

Link Function at Yahoo! Allows for Other Operators

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