Google Webmaster Tools and Backlinks
Google Webmaster Tools has always been a way to see some backlinks to your pages on a site you control. They’ve recently made a change to give you a “link download option” where you can download a full list of backlinks to your site and include a column for dates each link was discovered.
This way you can check and see how old your oldest links are as well as what links have surfaced recently.
To find this option, go to your site inside Webmaster Tools, click on Traffic->Links to Your Site. Then from there choose “More >>” under either “Who links the most” or under “Your most linked content”. On the following page you have three options:
- Download this table
- Download more sample links
- Download latest links
The new option is the third in this list. This is where you can get a full list of all the sites Google has listed that link to you, plus the date this was discovered.
You can see pictures and other details at Search Engine Roundtable.
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