Three Ways to Find Incoming Links for Free

It's important for us to have incoming links from around the internet pointing back to our blogs and websites. Google and the other search engines use this as a barometer to measure the importance and value of our content.

As time goes by, and you start to accumulate more and more quality incoming links you will see a direct correlation to the rise in the amount of traffic coming to our sites from Google as well as the other search engines.

Tools To Track Incoming Links

There are many tools we use to track our incoming links and we can even track links to other websites if we want. There are days with I use a tool called Market Samurai which is well worth the investment and if you want to take a test drive you can sign up for a free trial.

On the other hand there are days when I want to KISS – “Keep it Short and Simple” and I'll turn to these three resources instead. Watch this video where I demonstrate how you can get a quick snapshot of your incoming links for free!

Find Backlinks to Your Blog in the Dashboard, Technorati and Google Webmaster Tools

Three free ways to check incoming links

ll see 3 free resources that you can use on a daily basis to check on your incoming links. Sign up for my email tips and you'll be the first to get notified when I upload videos like this to YouTube and get more tips that will help you build inbound links and grow your audience. (Btw if YouTube is blocked in your area, click this link to watch the video on Vimeo, let me know if that works for you.)

1. Your WordPress Dashboard (go to “screen options” and check “incoming links” if you don't see it)
2. Your Technorati Listing (here's what my blog's Technorati listing looks like)  Technorati removed these listings in 2014
3. Your Google Webmaster Tools account (if you don't have this sign up now!)