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Live Search’s link: operator turned back on!
By Beth Strukelj | January 25, 2008
MSN removed the option to check on inbound links a while back. My colleague and I stumbled upon the fact that the MSN link operator is back at work. Now, it’s not the typical link operator or as easy as Google, but we’ll take anything.
It took several scenarios to get the results we were looking for, but we have managed to conquer it. We’ve also noticed several ways to form the link operator query, but of course the results were different for each.
The typical operator at Google and Yahoo (link:www.site.com) does not work. Here is what we’ve found works;
link:http://www.site.com
link-http://www.site.com
(link:http://www.site.com)
(link-http://www.site.com)
link site (yes just the word link and your domain name without the “www” or TLD)
Here is a real good one
link www.site.com OR www.site.com (yes you use the word “OR”)
link site OR site
(link site OR site)
The operator is endless and provides interesting results. Go ahead give it a try!
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January 28th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Thanks Guys - This could be very helpful. Way to stay on top of the market.
January 30th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Awesome information and so many ways to find it.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Wow Beth. That is awesome. I am glad you found that. I wonder if the Link Pop conglomerates have even realized this yet.
January 31st, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Great find, glad to see it’s working again. I wonder why they ever removed the link operator function in the first place? At least it’s back now, I know I’ll be using it!