How to find all banklinks for a URL that forwards to a main URL

[Czubmeister]

I have a client (yea! my second one doing seo) who has a law firm. He has a main site and then another site that just forwarded to his main website.

He wants to find all the directories (and other places on the web) where his second site is listed. At the time when he was adding his firm into the directories, he was using his secondary url but now he wants to go back and use his main website.

Unfortunately, he doesn't have a log of every place he added himself.

I tried just searching Google for "mysecondarywebsite.com"  (in quotes)for example but the SERPS return  listings that aren't right.

Suggestions?

[MRCSearch]

Give the "link:" operator a try, or see if OSE has any data. I'd say use GWT, but I'm assuming since it's just a forward there isn't an account set up.

[Vahe.Arabian]

The link operator is fairly limited. I would suggest pulling the external referring domain report for Majestic or if you are an SEOmoz pro member, use OSE's in combination with GWT external link reports to pull the list of sites.

However to be honest you will not be able to get all of these results as most of them might be removed or so low value that it wouldn't get picked up by these tools.

Hope this helps,

Vahe

[realpage]

Heyo,

I'd start with OSE and export the data compare it to GWT "Your Site on the Web" tab (specifically the Internal Links as well as the Links to your Site).

Then take a trip down to good old:

• http://www.backlinks.in/

This is a great way to analyze Second Tier Links if the first site contains links with the secondary URL. Also consider analyze the anchor text with this process. Will probably take a bit of elbow grease, but this is a good start.

Good Luck and good on ya!

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Cheers,

Brian