How to check backlinks

Getting backlinks to your web site is the most important part for getting ranked high today. Backlinks is when having one way link to your web site from another web site. Back in the days a two way links used to be very powerful. Since many people started taking advantage of that instead of concentrating on value of their content, google made improvement to their search engine to filter out those kinds of web sites.

There are good and bad backlinks that can either improve or drop your ranking. The best backlinks would be the once that google likes which are good ranking sites with good PR (page rank).

How to check web sites PR (page rank) - to check the PR of web site go to www.mywebsiteranking.com then in red box type in your web sites domain name, then click on Get Info in black box, then in the PageRank it will display your PR which can be from 0 - 10.

How to check backlinks - there are two ways to check backlinks, one in google and one in yahoo. Checking in google is the most valuable results because it filters out bad backlinks that google doesn't like. To check backlinks in google go to www.google.com then in google search box type in link: and then type the website url next to it. Example: link:www.gametrailers.com which have displayed about 5,080 websites results linking to it. Yahoo is more laid back and displays almost all the backlinks regardless of their quality and ranking. To check backlinks on yahoo, go to www.yahoo.com then in search box type in link: then next to it type in web site url just like we did in google, we'll use same example which is link:www.gametrailers.com which have displayed about 2,893,588 websites results linking to it.

(Tip: Look through the backlinks in google results and click on those web sites to see that you like, those can be either forum web sites, or directorys, articles, or other, then create an account with them and post a comment with a link to your web site, more you do that, higher you rank.)