{"id":9593,"date":"2018-08-14T05:18:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T13:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/?p=9593"},"modified":"2023-10-05T02:56:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T07:56:04","slug":"find-backlinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/find-backlinks\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Find Backlinks (That You Can Replicate)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Do you want to find backlinks that you can easily replicate for your website? You should; backlinks are one of Google\u2019s top two ranking factors.<\/div>\n

How do we know? They confirmed it<\/a> a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n

Pages with lots of backlinks also tend to get more traffic from Google, according to our study<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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From our study<\/a> of ~1 billion pages<\/p><\/div>\n

Sidenote.<\/div> This is a correlation<\/strong> study, as almost all SEO studies are. We can\u2019t confirm causation<\/strong>. But, in saying that links are one of the top ranking factors, Google has pretty much done that for us.<\/div>\n

But how do you find replicable, needle-moving backlinks anyhow?<\/p>\n

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New to link building? Check out our<\/div>
Beginner\u2019s guide to link building<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n

The secret to finding backlinks that help you rank in Google<\/h2>\n

Find out where your competitors get their links from, then replicate them.<\/p>\n

Not sure who your competitors are? They\u2019re the sites that already rank high in Google for the search queries you want to rank for. Your job is to find (and replicate) the backlinks that helped them get there.<\/p>\n

Do you want to find more competitors?<\/div>
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Use the Competing domains<\/strong> report in Site Explorer<\/a> to see the sites that compete with yours in the SERPs.<\/p>\n

Site Explorer<\/a> > enter your domain > Competing domains<\/em><\/p>\n

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Via the Competing Domains<\/strong> report in Ahrefs Site Explorer<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Keep in mind that this will only work with established sites. If your site is new and doesn\u2019t yet rank for anything, you may not see great results here.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

For us, one competing site would be backlinko.com<\/em> as it ranks for a ton of search terms that we want to rank for. Same goes for moz.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But how do we know where their backlinks come from?<\/p>\n

How to find backlinks (to any webpage or website)<\/h2>\n
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  1. Go to Ahrefs Site Explorer<\/a>;<\/li>\n
  2. Paste in any URL or domain (e.g., https:\/\/competitor\/blog\/blog-post\/<\/em> or https:\/\/competitor.com<\/em>)<\/li>\n
  3. Select the \u201cexact URL\u201d (for web pages) or \u201c*.domain\/*\u201d (for websites) mode from the drop-down;<\/li>\n
  4. Go to the Backlinks<\/strong> report (on the left-hand menu)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You\u2019ll then see backlinks pointing to your chosen website or webpage, plus lots<\/em> of data, including:<\/p>\n