[roxxy]

Link popularity is an important factor to rank you site higher in Search Result. You can easily count how many site has linked your site. To calculate how many site has linked your site in Google search by simply typing site:http://www.yoursite.com and will show the search result and number of site that has placed your link. You can do the same thing in yahoo or MSN search engines.

[datarecall]

Originally Posted by roxxy

Link popularity is an important factor to rank you site higher in Search Result. You can easily count how many site has linked your site. To calculate how many site has linked your site in Google search by simply typing site:http://www.yoursite.com and will show the search result and number of site that has placed your link. You can do the same thing in yahoo or MSN search engines.

Site: will only show cached and indexed pages of yoursite, it will not show incomming links to show that you need to go:
google: link:www.yoursite.com
yahoo:linkdomain:www.yoursite.com
msn:link:www.yoursite.com