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Harold is a web designer who has completed a website for ghttech.net. As part of the maintenance agreement he signed with the client, Harold is performing research online and seeing how much…
The correct answer is B. All sites that link to ghttech.net. Harold is using Google's 'link:' search operator (e.g., 'link:ghttech.net'). This operator returns a list of all web pages that have an inbound hyperlink pointing to the specified domain. It's a common technique for checking a site's backlink profile and measuring its online…
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Harold is a web designer who has completed a website for ghttech.net. As part of the maintenance agreement he signed with the client, Harold is performing research online and seeing how much exposure the site has received so far. Harold navigates to google.com and
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- AAll search engines that link to .net domains
- BAll sites that link to ghttech.net
- DAll sites that ghttech.net links to
How the community answered
(60 responses)- A3% (2)
- B93% (56)
- D3% (2)
Explanation
Harold is using Google's 'link:' search operator (e.g., 'link:ghttech.net'). This operator returns a list of all web pages that have an inbound hyperlink pointing to the specified domain. It's a common technique for checking a site's backlink profile and measuring its online exposure. Answer A is wrong because the operator is domain-specific, not TLD-specific. Answer D describes the opposite - outbound links from ghttech.net - which is not what the 'link:' operator does.
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