How to backtrack competitors 301 redirects?

Y

yesman22

Newbie

Jun 29, 2010

46

4

• Oct 2, 2010

• #1

Pretty straight forward, i'm trying to find a way to backtrack a competitors backlinks. Yahoo site explorer and multiple searches do not show any crumbs. Competitor has pr4 with 0 backlinks.. so he's obviously using 301 redirects. How can I find out those redirects.. any ideas?

 

G

gurkoboy

Junior Member

Dec 2, 2009

116

60

• Oct 2, 2010

• #2

I don't think there is an easy way to do this. The nature in which 301 redirects work is not typically visible to people without access to their server.

I might be wrong but I'm 99% sure that this isn't possible.

 

B

Bross

Senior Member

Feb 6, 2010

859

355

• Oct 2, 2010

• #3

yesman22 said:

Pretty straight forward, i'm trying to find a way to backtrack a competitors backlinks. Yahoo site explorer and multiple searches do not show any crumbs. Competitor has pr4 with 0 backlinks.. so he's obviously using 301 redirects. How can I find out those redirects.. any ideas?

Click to expand...

I would second "impossible". It is server side and doesn't show any data to the public.

 

Y

yesman22

Newbie

Jun 29, 2010

46

4

• Oct 2, 2010
• Thread Starter Thread Starter

• #4

you guys aren't creative, its possible.. nothing is impossible

 

A

aznxmtg

BANNED

Jul 9, 2010

327

49

• Oct 2, 2010

• #5

You must not be very creative yourself then.

 

S

siniy

Registered Member

Sep 5, 2009

53

16

• Oct 2, 2010

• #6

Maybe alexa will show traffic source.

 

hitman247

Power Member

Oct 12, 2008

702

1,879

• Oct 2, 2010

• #7

yesman22 said:

you guys aren't creative, its possible.. nothing is impossible

Click to expand...

Why bother posting if this is all you have to contribute?

 

B

Bross

Senior Member

Feb 6, 2010

859

355

• Oct 3, 2010

• #8

yesman22 said:

you guys aren't creative, its possible.. nothing is impossible

Click to expand...

Next time someone bothers to think for a second about a question you've asked, whether you like the answer or not - Say thanks and add your comment instead of patronizing those who waste their time on someone with your attitude.

Noone here owes you nothing.

 

Last edited: Oct 3, 2010

C

carthom

Registered Member

Sep 18, 2010

77

16

• Oct 3, 2010

• #9

One idea is to a reverse dns lookup on domaintools you know the rest - but your going to pay out the rear for the report. You can search your competitors domain and then get a report of other domains they owned and find likely candidates for the 301. Plausible but pricey.