Does anyone know how i can get SEO info such as Yahoo, Google and MSN back link check? I’m making a seeding database that checks the page rank, Alexa rating and any other info I can find, the web sites being monitored are entered in to a database through PHP.
@JDM71488Jul 27.2007 — #you could get the file contents of the referring url and search it for the url of the page that was originally requested. if present then you have a backlink present on the site that is linking to yours. of course you wouldn't have to use the referring address if you had a different one stored in a database for that domain. etc...
@PJStewauthorJul 27.2007 — # What do you mean "a back link check"? [/QUOTE] a script that finds out how many links are registered in a search engine, the same as if you where to type in to a search engine "link:" followed by a domain name e.g. [CODE]link:http://www.webdeveloper.com/[/CODE] you could get the file contents of the referring url and search it for the url of the page that was originally requested. if present then you have a backlink present on the site that is linking to yours. of course you wouldn't have to use the referring address if you had a different one stored in a database for that domain. etc...[/QUOTE] what i'm trying to do is get the number of links off other websites to my sites that have been cashed by search engines. I need this to be given in numeric form e.g.