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View The Page Rank Of Your Back Links

Posted by Paul B | September 1, 2007 .

Everybody should be using Google’s Webmaster Control panel by now. In registering your domain not only can you submit a site map to help speed up indexing but you can also see various stats and figures about your website (it’s a great way of seeing what page rank you can expect at the next PR export). One of my favourite tools is the “Links” facility. This allows you to see all your back links (the websites that link to you). In the past Google made a small amount of this information via the link: operator but now you have an easy way of viewing all back links.

However, Matt Cutts was very nice to point out that not all the links in that list count in terms of a vote for your website. A lot of those links will be passing 0 page rank, have nonsense link text or any of a number of other problems. Luckily for us web masters somebody has come up with a way of viewing that information as well. You’ll be able to see the Page rank of the pages that link to you, if it’s “no followed” and even what link text is used including the alt tag for image links.

In order to get this to work you’ll need a copy of Firefox, you should have a copy of Firefox installed anyway because enough users use it to warrant testing all your websites on Firefox! The next thing you’ll need is a Firefox plug-in called Greasemonkey. Greasemonkey is a HTML post-processor for pages loaded into Firefox (it does something after the page has been loaded), by using scripts you can manipulate the content of what your browser shows you. It’s mainly used to insert extra HTML into a page. Once you’ve got Greasemonkey installed you’ll need to install the following script (just click on the link to have it installed for you, after you’ve installed Greasemonkey!). By activating the plug-in and going to the links page you’ll now get all that extra information. A colour code is available to help you:-

Red - The link no longer exists
Orange - The link is not counted for some reason (normally a rel=nofollow is being used)
Black - Everything is OK

Although the results aren’t always 100% reliable it does provide some great insight in to who is linking to you, with what text and with what page rank.

For more information about the extra link info script please follow the link.

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  1. Catherine Lawson UNITED STATES Windows Vista Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6  September 1, 2007 2:12 pm

    Thanks for the tip. I have heaps of links that don’t show up on Google as links that count, so it looks like I should check this out.