Here are a few ways to see how your site is doing with the major search engines. Specifically, this post will show you how to find indexed pages & backlinks in the top 3 search engines Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Indexed Pages And Backlinks in Google

Google makes this very easy. Simply pull up Google in a browser and enter the code below with the web site you want to evaluate. With Google you have the option to not only search for backlinks (links:) and pages (site:), but also web sites that are similar in content to your own (related:).

Pages Indexed in Google
site:www.natebal.com

Back Links in Google
link:www.natebal.com

Related Web Sites
related:www.natebal.com

Indexed Pages And Backlinks in Yahoo

This is a little different when using Yahoo. They have a different tracking system called SiteExplorer where you can actually set up web sites in a control panel to be followed by Yahoo. To access this data you can set up an account for tracking or replace the url in the string below with your own address.

Pages Indexed in Yahoo
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch;_ylt=AnBNGiaE9LUdUEBcKZnwu7nbl8kF?ei=UTF-8&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.natebal.com&searchbwm=Explore+URL

Backlinks in Yahoo
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch;_ylt=AnBNGiaE9LUdUEBcKZnwu7nbl8kF?ei=UTF-8&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.natebal.com&searchbwm=Explore+URL

Indexed Pages And Backlinks in MSN

MSN is set up like Google. I wish they were all this way, but the lines below will give you the results you’re looking for in MSN.

Pages Indexed in MSN
site:www.natebal.com

Backlinks in MSN
link:www.natebal.com

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I was bouncing around the net trying to find some easy, “Copy and Paste”, code to add Sociable type functionality to my Blogger blog and had little luck locating code that actually did what it said it would. So I set to the task of writing something that would.

Below is some simple code you can copy and paste into your Blogger template to add the following group of social networks to your Blogger web sites.

Socialize this post

Step by step directions

1. Access your Blogger dashboard and click on the layout tab. Select the, “Edit HTML“, sub tab.

2. Make sure, “Expand Widget Templates“, is selected. You can also revert to your defaulted widget template by clicking the revert button on the bottom.

3. Look for the following strip of code in your template.

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'/>

4. Past the code below after this tag and hit preview.

Copy And Paste Sociable Code For Blogger

<br /> <strong>Socialize this post</strong><br /> <a expr:href='"http://digg.com/submit?phase=3&url=" + data:post.url' target='_blank'><img src="http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r181/lukeslytalker/digg.png" title="Digg It" alt="digg How Do I Add Sociable Buttons to my Blogger Template?" /></a> <a expr:href='"http://del.icio.us/post?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'><img src="http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r181/lukeslytalker/delicious.png" title="Del.icio.us" alt="delicious How Do I Add Sociable Buttons to my Blogger Template?" /></a> <a expr:href='"http://technorati.com/faves/naterati?add=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'><img src="http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r181/lukeslytalker/technorati.png" title="Technorati" alt="technorati How Do I Add Sociable Buttons to my Blogger Template?" /></a> <a expr:href='"http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'><img src="http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r181/lukeslytalker/stumbleupon.png" title="Stumble Post" alt="stumbleupon How Do I Add Sociable Buttons to my Blogger Template?" /></a> <a expr:href='"http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?u=" + data:post.url + "&t=" + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add to Furl'><img src="http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r181/lukeslytalker/furl.png" title="Furl It" alt="furl How Do I Add Sociable Buttons to my Blogger Template?" /></a> <a expr:href='"http://www.spurl.net/spurl.php?url=" + data:post.url + "&title= " + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add to Spurl'><img src="http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r181/lukeslytalker/spurl.png" title="Spurl" alt="spurl How Do I Add Sociable Buttons to my Blogger Template?" /></a> <a expr:href='"http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?u=" + data:post.url + "&=" + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Add to Yahoo web'> <img src="http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r181/lukeslytalker/yahoomyweb.png" title="My Yahoo" alt="yahoomyweb How Do I Add Sociable Buttons to my Blogger Template?" /></a>

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