Finally MSN does something nifty with search: an outbound link operator. Who do you link TO? That’s some excellent new data to add to your competitive research projects. Now if only MSN would get crawling more of the web.
We have one new, very exciting operator: LinkFromDomain. Using LinkFromDomain in your search includes all sites that are linked from a given domain. This complements LinkDomain (which includes all sites that link to a given domain) that was introduced back in June, 05.
More info here.
If you’re really quiet you can here the scrapers firing up…
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October 16th, 2006 at 4:30 pm[...] An exciting new search operator on MSN went up today. (Thanks Oilman for the tip!) [...]
Eric Enge
October 16th, 2006 at 5:04 pmThis is a first! Among other things, you can look at authority sites and find other high quality sites to backlink.
Natasha Robinson
October 16th, 2006 at 5:46 pmNo good will come from this (she says as she goes to search for who competitors link out to and to see if there is a pattern)
LifeInSearch
October 16th, 2006 at 6:12 pmTodd, this is brilliant! I am happy to say I heard it here first
… Reverse engineering link popularity, anyone?
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October 16th, 2006 at 8:10 pm[...] MSN has given us access to a new search operator LinkFromDomain as Oilman first posted. Example: LinkFromDomain:Xuru.com [...]
Jack Spirko
October 17th, 2006 at 8:29 amI think this is really cool and just did a review of it on my blog, including things like how you can use it to see if your site has been hacked or how it may be used to point out a hack to a potential client.
Jack Spirko
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October 17th, 2006 at 2:04 pm[...] Neues Feature bei Live.com -> LinkFromDomain – sehr nett! (gefunden bei Todd) [...]
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October 18th, 2006 at 11:49 am[...] Oilman: MSN Live Search Adds Linkfromdomain Operator [...]
Marketingfan.com
October 20th, 2006 at 3:23 am3 great uses for the MSN LinkFromDomain command…
The new linkfromdomain command available from MSN Live search for some days is what I have been waiting for for YEARS now… read why…
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Aaron Shear
October 21st, 2006 at 4:15 pmIt’s great that they are innovating. Since they are still fighting the ability just to crawl sites I think they should focus on one thing before expanding.
PiggyBlog
November 10th, 2006 at 4:56 amLive.com looksreally promising and fast indexing pages. Hope they will knockout Google someday
SEO
December 21st, 2007 at 3:29 pmThis isn’t working anymore.
Does anyone know the new operators for linkfromdomain and regular linkdomain to show all inbound links?
The other week link:www.domain.com was working but now it isn’t.
Thanks.
DUI
February 20th, 2008 at 12:31 pmI wasn’t aware of this Todd. That really is cool. You’re right though- MSN needs to get to indexing. I have practically given up on the company.
mmorpg
June 16th, 2008 at 8:46 pmhaha, hear the scrapers firing up is right. These link operators are useful at times but give an incomplete picture most of the time.
Pregnant
June 24th, 2008 at 7:51 pmGreat post Todd, I just found that if you submit your sitemap to MSM/Live they will crawl a lot more of your site and it will get a lot more hits.. Just a FYI..
thanks,
Brandon
moinseo
January 4th, 2009 at 6:10 amHi your efforts very good keep it work..
Background Check
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:08 pmNice post Todd… Also "pregnant" yes, great point, I found the same to be true.