Recip Links - Finding Yours and the Competition

Thought I would throw up a quick post since almost everyone asks me this question at some point or another.

"How do I find out who is linking to me?"

And more importantly, "How do I find out who is linking to my competition?"

Easy.

Go to your favorite search engine, in the search field enter; link:www.mywebsite.com

mywebsite being your website or the one you want to find out who is linking to.

The problem with this is that it is very time consuming, to go through websites, listing their page ranks, finding their contact information, and trying to figure out how best to get them to link back to you.

So there is this software, I have only used the trial version but am very impressed. Its called SEO Elite, available for free download at Download.com

While the trial version is limited it has still helped me focus certain webpages. I look forward to buying the full version soon.