Hello BHW!
I was playing around with Bing WMT and found something interesting. You can find all backlinks of any domain using the Bing Webmaster tools! Isn't it amazing
? Keep reading to know more.
First, you need to add your site to Bing webmaster tools. Once you do that, head over to the backlinks tab from the sidebar.
Over here, select the "Similar Sites" from the top tab on the backlinks page.
Now, Bing allows you to add up to 3 sites to compare your own site with. On this window, your site will be selected by default. Next to it, add your competitor's website and uncheck the slider for your site. Once you do that, it will display all the Referring domains pointing towards your competitor's domain. Just scroll down and click on "Detailed Report." At this point, you can even go ahead and download all the links. But the downloaded file will include only the root linking domains, not the exact page referring to your competitor.
Further, from this list, just click on any domain, and it will show you the exact page that is referring to your competitor's URL. Checkout the sample below for BHW.
You will be able to see *most* of your competitors' referring domains since most PBNs do not block BingBot. Bing is comparatively slower in crawling, so it might take some time for new backlinks to show up.
You can also use it to find all the backlinks of any website if you do not want to spend money on premium tools like Ahrefs or Semrush.
How to identify if particular site is PBN?
Simple, just check out the robots.txt file. So, if your domain is example .com, then you can see the robots file at - example.com/robots.txt
If you find that significant crawlers are blocked, then it is definitely a PBN.
Example code:
Note: If this post helped you, do not hesitate to hit the "Like" button.
Another Note: English is not my first language so please bear.
I was playing around with Bing WMT and found something interesting. You can find all backlinks of any domain using the Bing Webmaster tools! Isn't it amazing
? Keep reading to know more.First, you need to add your site to Bing webmaster tools. Once you do that, head over to the backlinks tab from the sidebar.
Over here, select the "Similar Sites" from the top tab on the backlinks page.
Now, Bing allows you to add up to 3 sites to compare your own site with. On this window, your site will be selected by default. Next to it, add your competitor's website and uncheck the slider for your site. Once you do that, it will display all the Referring domains pointing towards your competitor's domain. Just scroll down and click on "Detailed Report." At this point, you can even go ahead and download all the links. But the downloaded file will include only the root linking domains, not the exact page referring to your competitor.
Further, from this list, just click on any domain, and it will show you the exact page that is referring to your competitor's URL. Checkout the sample below for BHW.
You will be able to see *most* of your competitors' referring domains since most PBNs do not block BingBot. Bing is comparatively slower in crawling, so it might take some time for new backlinks to show up.
You can also use it to find all the backlinks of any website if you do not want to spend money on premium tools like Ahrefs or Semrush.
How to identify if particular site is PBN?
Simple, just check out the robots.txt file. So, if your domain is example .com, then you can see the robots file at - example.com/robots.txt
If you find that significant crawlers are blocked, then it is definitely a PBN.
Example code:
Code:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /Note: If this post helped you, do not hesitate to hit the "Like" button.
Another Note: English is not my first language so please bear.
