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MSN has a new search operator that allows you to see all the domains that any given site is linking out to.
Most professional search marketers have long known that inbound links to your site affect ranking, but outbound links from your site to others matter as well. If you’re linking to authoritative sites, can help you, and if you link to bad neighborhoods, it can hurt you in a big way.
With this new MSN (Live) search, you just type “linkfromdomain:domainname.com” in the MSN search box, and you’re returned results showing all the outbound links instantly from your domain, or… for a competitors domain.
Finding out exactly where your competitors link out to can help expand your own outbound links logically, and in turn, may get you some links back, or help develop oother partnerships. Nice, quick, and efficient.
Thank you Microsoft… Did I really say that?
What is the search operator for filetype in MSN. I tried filetype:(required filetyupe) like in Google but it didn’t worked.
You have to type it like below, with a space after the phrase, and no dot for the extension. I just tried it, and it works –
searchphrase filetype:ext
The MSN page here http://tinyurl.com/y3l6rm shows the detailed explanation