Find Links to Your Website on Twitter with BackTweets.com

Posted on December 1, 2009

[0:00:00]

Hi, this is Laura Roeder, and today, I’m going to show you how to use a really cool site called backtweets.com. So, I’m here on the home page. You can see the URL. It’s B-A-C-K-T-W-E-E-T-S.COM, and what this does is it searches Twitter for any links to your website – of course any website that you want to search for – and you’ll find the mentions of you and your business that you would have missed with any other search channel, and I’ll show you why that is.

So you start by just inputting your URL – in my case, lauraroeder.com –hit “Search” and let me show you a few examples of what you’ll find. So here’s a tweet from about three weeks ago, “How to Track Your Online Reputation with SocialMention.com.” Now, you can see that I would never know in a regular search that this was linked to me, because just looking at the link, it’s a shortened link, so it says, “ow.ly.” It doesn’t lauraroeder.com. This tweet doesn’t mention my Twitter name. It doesn’t mention my business name. It doesn’t mention my name. So, in a normal Web search, this would never come up.”

Here’s another one, “How do you Track Your Online Reputation?” and then it has this “bit.ly” link. It never mentions me or my name. So the reason why this is a powerful tool is it’s going to find things that people are saying about you and your website that you would have missed from just a normal Web search. And as you can see, it can find links even if they use a shortened URL, and it finds links to all pages on your site, not just lauraroeder.com, but various blog posts that I’ve done and things like that.

So what you do is after you input your URL, so you won’t have to do the search over and over again, you want to click on this orange RSS button right here – this is the universal icon for RSS – and once you click on that, you’re brought to a page with a constantly updated feed of people who are tweeting a link with your URL in it. You can then copy and paste this address right here. If you just look in your address bar, it’ll give you the URL of the feed and you can put it into a feed reader. My favorite is netvibes.com, or a lot of people like to use Google Reader. You can create a listening station with feeds about what’s being said about you and your business, and then you can just go to that one page and get a snapshot of everything that’s going on.

So this is a really valuable tool, a really cool site that will find things being said about you on Twitter that you might otherwise miss. Again, this is Laura Roeder showing you how to use backtweets.com.

[0:02:26] End of Audio

Buffer

Facebook comments

22 Responses to “Find Links to Your Website on Twitter with BackTweets.com”

Heather Allard
Dec 02, 2009

Awesome, Laura! I just found a dozen tweets about my site that, like you said, I never would have found otherwise!

Thanks so much!
Heather
.-= Heather Allard´s last blog ..5 Steps To Wholesaling Your Craft =-.
Denise Butchko
Dec 02, 2009

Great job Laura – love it!
Lynn @Mama_Says
Dec 03, 2009

Laura,
Thanks for the tip.
Bryan Gira
Dec 09, 2009

Thanks Laura,

great info. Never knew this existed.

All the best, Bryan
Adam
Dec 10, 2009

Laura,
Found you through Charlie Cook’s blog @ Marketing For Success and now I am hooked. Thanks for the great content, I really appreciate it while trying to market my business @turnupmyworkout.

Adam
Crystal Parrett
Dec 11, 2009

Just stumbled onto your site, and I love it. This is great info, I didn’t even know this was out there. Thanks for the great info. I’m going to use this for my own blog and my clients’ sites.
.-= Crystal Parrett´s last blog ..Easy-Start Guide to Using Twitter =-.
Shelly Wolfe
Dec 15, 2009

Hi Laura –

Thanks for sharing such a great resource!

Shelly
Kenneth Tent
Jan 02, 2010

This is a great resource for anyone who blogs!!
cynthia bailey md
Jan 10, 2010

Absolutely brilliant! Thank you for getting this information out there where I could find it. I’m glad I have you on my RSS feed, your posts are a fabulous. I look forward to more.
Farnoosh
Jan 19, 2010

As always, short, sweet, to the point and very useful. Thank you Laura. Question: When you find out that others have then Tweeted about you or links to your site say a few weeks ago, it is a good idea to go back and thank them or acknowledge it? Is it in general a good practice? I do it and I wonder if it’s common among others. It’s such a nice feeling to know others find our information useful. Thanks again!
TwitterMining, Level 2 continued | Trends and Tools for Marcom Managers by Jon Byous
Feb 04, 2010

[...] Also, watch her similar short video about backtweets.com called Find Links to Your Website on Twitter with BackTweets.com. [...]
Ronda Ringo
Feb 19, 2010

Thanks, Laura. Great tip! (I watched you on Blog Mastermind the other day–you definitely have it figured out!)

Quick question, I tried to click on the RSS button to get that additional information like you suggested, but instead it only showed the source code. Weird. Any tips?
Eric Goldstein
Mar 19, 2010

Great find Laura! This is definitely
important for when people forget your
Twitter name.

I also like to use Google Alerts to see
what’s being said about me or my company
out on the net.

I can tell that you are a VALUE adder.
Always great to run into people that are
truly out to help others.

You Make A Difference:)
.-= Eric Goldstein´s last blog ..Manifesting What You Want: A Process To Do It =-.
Yuriko Pierce
Apr 09, 2010

Here is an good article regarding a lot of traffic from Twitter via your WordPress based blogs. Here it is: http://www.wordpressrobot.com/5-steps-to-becoming-highly-infectious-on-twitter
Ressie Updegraff
May 22, 2010

Ta very much for posting this up. Could prove to be useful to me.
AllenJFuller.com · Tools: BackTweets.com
Jun 04, 2010

[...] I found this website by following Laura Roeder’s blog. She is definitely one of the legitimate social media experts out there. This is a link to her video on BackTweets. [...]
Make Money Online
Jun 04, 2010

Cool idea, but wouldn’t people rather be able to start their own business, and make money online? Take a look at this site, Make Money Online, it has helped me do just that! They have lots of new posts daily, offers that you have never seen before online, and the best information available online. Check them out today!

Good luck on your blog and keep up the good work!

- Dino Vedo – Your Internet Marketing Expert
Jonathan Hannsson
Jun 27, 2010

Thanks so much, I will start using this tool more often now. I looked it up one day and never went back until I found this. Greats tips
Hannah's Harvest
Sep 13, 2010

Love this! Hopefully I will get to the point where people are linking to me!!!!
LouiseM
Jun 29, 2011

Do you now have to purchase the Pro version to get the rss feed? No rss button in sight on the search results page. Thanks for the tip tho, very cool!
Jenni Prokopy
Jul 20, 2011

hi laura, great video – but since Twitter acquired backtweets, it appears that the RSS button has beent taken down and we can’t save those searches. any idea of another service or some other way we can save searches like that? thanks much!
SADIERichmond
Jan 31, 2012

I had a desire to make my own company, nevertheless I did not have enough amount of cash to do it. Thank God my close colleague advised to use the loans. Thence I took the short term loan and realized my desire.

Trackbacks/Pingbacks

TwitterMining, Level 2 continued | Trends and Tools for Marcom Managers by Jon Byous says:

February 4, 2010 at 4:30 pm

[...] Also, watch her similar short video about backtweets.com called Find Links to Your Website on Twitter with BackTweets.com. [...]

AllenJFuller.com · Tools: BackTweets.com says:

June 4, 2010 at 6:25 am

[...] I found this website by following Laura Roeder’s blog. She is definitely one of the legitimate social media experts out there. This is a link to her video on BackTweets. [...]