Ask HN: How do you find out when someone links to your blog?
If one of your blog posts suddenly got linked from somewhere and resulted in a lot of (or even a bump in) traffic, what do you have in place that would alert you and tell you where the traffic is coming from?
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I don't have analytics built into my site at all, but I can see whatever CPanel has which is usually Webalyzer or AWStats.
Back when Google wasn't trying to stop people from visiting sites related to their searches, they used to have a link: operator that would give you that information. Apparently they got rid of that functionality back in 2017.
You can look at back links in marginalia site data.