I know a lot of people weren't sure of a good way to find their competitor's backlinks since YSE shut down. This is a simple and often overlooked trick that I use to find sites direct linking to my competitor. (sites indexed by Google, which are usually the only important ones anyways).
Go to Google, copy/paste the code below into the search box, and click search:
Thats it! Just replace blackhatworld.com with the URL of your competitor and you'll see all sites directly linking to that page. The first operator tells Google to show pages linking to the URL. The second tells Google to remove links coming from the same domain.
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Now, if you want to get a little more indepth, you can change the first operator to a particular page of the site (ex: blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/). If you want to look a bit further through their link structure, take some of the sites you get from your first results and plug them into the code. This will give you an idea if they are just direct linking or if they have some type of link pyramid/wheels going on.
Another good way to do this is to use the search operators as a custom footprint in Scrapebox. That way you can scrape the domains and filter out the list some. I usually sort them by PR to go after some of the higher PR sites linking to my competitor.
Go to Google, copy/paste the code below into the search box, and click search:
Code:
link:www.blackhatworld.com -site:www.blackhatworld.comThats it! Just replace blackhatworld.com with the URL of your competitor and you'll see all sites directly linking to that page. The first operator tells Google to show pages linking to the URL. The second tells Google to remove links coming from the same domain.
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Now, if you want to get a little more indepth, you can change the first operator to a particular page of the site (ex: blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/). If you want to look a bit further through their link structure, take some of the sites you get from your first results and plug them into the code. This will give you an idea if they are just direct linking or if they have some type of link pyramid/wheels going on.
Another good way to do this is to use the search operators as a custom footprint in Scrapebox. That way you can scrape the domains and filter out the list some. I usually sort them by PR to go after some of the higher PR sites linking to my competitor.
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