What's the preferred way to check for links to my site?

[ricestube]

i like mudkipz :)

[MrTimAway]

Does anyone else find it ironic how a Google employee recommends the Yahoo Site Explorer? 

[ernstweinert]

Will another site gain on large text content stolen from my site ?

Ernst

[kluncup]

Do you smoke?

[motherknucker]

Did a Google Guy said use Site Explorer !

[georgebizpro]

Thanks Matt.

George (Murph) in Baltimore.

[realestateweb]

Besides Yahoo, there are some other very good tools out there that will show you most of your competitor's inbound links. Aaron Wall's free SEO tools, for example. BackLinkWatch for example. Some of these can even show you the Alexa Rank, etc... count the external links from each page found, etc...

[PoppysCornerShop]

thank you :D

[scottybowl]

It shows them all - there are a few greasemonkey scripts out there which will automatically pull in the page rank and whether the links are nofollow or not

[therealhockeygod]

I would assume they only show non-nofollowed links, as if they followed the standard they wouldn't know about the nofollowed ones.

[mattsoreco]

Does google webmaster tools show "nofollow" or only non-nofollow links?

[rahnas]

Google does not care whether it is nofollow oro non-nofollow link. It shows all links in the list

[KaNuddel]

@mattsoreco its called "doFollow" ;-) and yes, GWT shows nofollow links as well