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What backlinks does Google track?

by cozandeffect
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When you type in link:www.yourdomain.com into google, what exactly is being measured? The reason I ask is that I recently wrote twenty articles and submitted to Ezine, but I don't see any links when I type this in? Any ideas?
#backlinks #google #track
  • Profile picture of the author jadsn
    try link: yourdomain.com (add a space)
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    • Profile picture of the author cozandeffect
      Originally Posted by jadsn View Post

      try link: yourdomain.com (add a space)
      so, without the space: 0 results.
      with the space: 6,000,000 +

      what am i doing wrong? this site is only ten days old, but has thirteen live articles all pointing to the homepage and a specific page as well.

      how do you check for links to your site?
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  • Profile picture of the author Alex Liu
    I think all of the methods are wrong. No offend.

    Google have their own system to calculate backlinks and they are not showing it at their search engines with just link:yourdomainname.com

    To get the accurate number of links, you can sign up for Google Webmasters and use that as a tool. That will give you a much more accurate number. The method with link:yourdomainname is not accurate because Google index pages very fast and it is not possible that they are able to calculate links only at that speed. Google webmasters tool will give you some accurate numbers. Just sign up an account with them.

    Anyway, Google do count nofollow links too. It might give lots of weight on it but it does help. It is important to mix your links with nofollow links to make it natural.
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    • Profile picture of the author dburk
      Hi Alex,

      With all due respect, your are wrong. My method shows you the most current list of backlinks. The Google Webmaster Tools site shows you the same data, it's just not updated as often as the actual index. New backlinks show right away with my method but the Webmaster Tools may take 2-3 weeks to show new backlinks.
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    • Profile picture of the author askloz
      Alex, you're wrong bud.

      There's several ways to do it.

      link:yourdomainname.com
      link:www.yourdomainname.com

      and as Dburk says:

      "www,yourdomain,com" -site:www,yourdomain,com

      the first one calls for all the backlinks
      the second one supresses any backlinks coming off your domain.
      however, the first one also matches those words exactly if they are not hyperlinked up and written as normal text.

      A more accurate way is:
      link:yourdomainname.com which returns links that are randomly choosen out of ALL the backlinks google knows about, these are given more weight to the backlink at the present time

      Then you have another method

      link: yourdomainname.com (by placing a space in between the colon and the domain name.

      which is similar to:

      "www,yourdomain,com" -site:www,yourdomain,com

      Google does NOT count nofollow links. Who ever told you that, needs to go back and learn SEO again.

      no offense, but it surprises me that you even get traffic at all or are that un-informed that you're willing to waste all your time to get nofollow links, to what you suggest, make it look natural..

      ok, i got a better way, keep getting backlinks from do-follow and hyper link up STOP words to your anchor text.

      "for more information about keyword, click here"

      etc, etc. is more natural.




      Originally Posted by Alex Liu View Post

      I think all of the methods are wrong. No offend.

      Google have their own system to calculate backlinks and they are not showing it at their search engines with just link:yourdomainname.com

      To get the accurate number of links, you can sign up for Google Webmasters and use that as a tool. That will give you a much more accurate number. The method with link:yourdomainname is not accurate because Google index pages very fast and it is not possible that they are able to calculate links only at that speed. Google webmasters tool will give you some accurate numbers. Just sign up an account with them.

      Anyway, Google do count nofollow links too. It might give lots of weight on it but it does help. It is important to mix your links with nofollow links to make it natural.
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  • Profile picture of the author spressnell
    Interesting. I had 2 with one format and 4 with another.

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