Yahoo has an excellent command you can use in their search engine called linkdomain, but Google doesn’t have it. This command will let you see all of the sites Yahoo has found that link to your website. This command is very useful, but Yahoo doesn’t crawl the web as thoroughly as Google. Your results using Yahoo will be missing many of the links on the web to your site.
Google has a link command, but experience suggests that it doesn’t work very well at all! Think about that for a while, since it doesn’t make much sense. Why wouldn’t Google want you to know what sites link to yours? I don’t have an answer. You should be asking Google.
You can still find out pretty easily who is linking to your site with Google. You might just have to get a few bogus results included. Do an exact search for your domain name like: “elwsoftware.com” and see what comes up. Hopefully your site will be the top result, or you will need to do some more SEO work. Among the list of search results should also be all the sites on the web that have your domain name somewhere in their text. This might not include all the sites that link to yours, since who knows what people use for anchor text.
If you want to remove your site from the search results above, you can use Google’s site command like this:
“elwsoftware.com” -site:elwsoftware.com
Now you have a list of every site Google has found that includes your domain name. It isn’t quite as good as knowing who links to you, but it is close. If your page titles all have your domain name included (look at the top of your browser when you visit your site) the search results could include many links to you from scraper sites. These sites scan the web for information, then they post it on their sites. Usually it is just a summary of your article, and a link to the original. It is often done to make it look like a site has more content than it really does. It can also be a good way to get some good links to your site if you approach it carefully, but that is a subject for another article.
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