Brian Gilley over at Social SEO published a great article about finding the best backlinks. To find these backlinks, Google’s advanced search operators are your best friend.
Here’s a summary of the keywords from Brian
inurl:forgotten_password.php “We will send the address of a unique verification page to you via email click”
Elgg
“Powered by Elgg”
Drupal Searches
“Allowed HTML tags: <a>”
Laconica – microblogging
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=inurl%3Aregister+URL+of+your+homepage%2C+blog%2C+or+profile+on+another+site&btnG=Search
b2evolution
“Your URL will be displayed” “Line breaks become <br />”
JobberBase
“powered by Mephisto” comment
“powered by subtext”
“Powered by s9y” comment
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Strings
“leave a comment”
Submit A Link
- keyword + “your link here” -reciprocal (example)
- keyword + “post your link” -reciprocal (example)
- keyword + “post a link” -reciprocal (example)
- keyword + “post your link” -reciprocal (example)
- keyword + “list your site” – reciprocal (example)
Commenthunt.com
Azure Profiles – http://freelanceswitch.com/designer/17-websites-to-boost-your-designer-profile/
Link Buying Queries
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- “become an advertiser”
- “advertising options”
- “advertise with us”
- “become a sponsor”
- “sponsor our site’
- “sponsor site”
- “sponsor us”
Link Data
Yahoo Site Explorer
Alexa – http://www.alexa.com/data/ds/linksin/seomoz.org
Exalead – http://www.exalead.com/search/results?q=+link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fseomoz.org&x=0&y=0