The question is How you can identify who is linking to your site?
You may already know that having peoples linked to your site is a very important factor for major search engines. This is because a link is a citation or a formal vote for a website. Simply having lots of people linking to you however is not enough. How many people link to your website and how good and relevant the sites are is important factors for search engines. And this can have a big impact on your sites ranking.
Here are two easy ways to check how many people or Websites link to you. It’s possible to check the backlinks in more than one way.
First, let’s look at Google. Up until two years ago, Google was the first choice for webmasters to get backlink information to see who links to them. Let’s try your site. Now in Google, you need to type “link:” and then the web address and that is “link:http://www.yoursite.com” – if yours is a well known site you will see how many sites linking to you and the list of results. If yours is not that well-known try apple.com and you will find that thousands of sites (approximately more than 35000) are linking to apple.com.
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