Checking backlinks... so who's right?

by Droopy Dawg

Posted: 15 years ago 13 replies

I got bored, so I was checking the backlinks to 2 sites, and I went to Yahoo Site Explorer (siteexplorer.search.yahoo dot com), and ntered my 2 URLs.

My were results were staggering ... one URL had 166 links, and the other has 174. It was a shock to me because I haven't done any backlinking other than some articles on EZA and some blog site submissions and press releases.

So I then went to google, and did the search string (link://www.url dot com) and Google says I had NO links.

Now I know that I have some links because I've done some... so why has Google not recognized any of my links, but yahoo has those that I linked (on purpose), and some that I didnt' even know that I had?

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#backlinks #checking

KirkMcD

15 years ago

Google doesn't show all your links with the link command. If you want to see your links on Google, sign up for Google's Webmaster Tools.

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John Hocking

15 years ago

Google does now show you all your backlinks.

You can use Link Popularity Check - Marketleap Search Engine Marketing Tools to show the differences in the shown links between yahoo and google and compare them to other sites.

Do you have Google Analytics | Official Website installed on your site?
It will give you greatly detailed reports on where you traffic is coming from and what they are doing while on your site.

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birdfood

15 years ago

Originally Posted by John Hocking

Thanks for that link. Just spent the last 10 minutes playing around with it and that site is great. Bookmarked

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Heman Patel 15 years ago

Originally Posted by KirkMcD

Google doesn't show all your links with the link command. If you want to see your links on Google, sign up for Google's Webmaster Tools.

Agree, here is video answer from Matt Cutts -

YouTube - Two questions about the link: operator
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- axleman 15 years ago
  
  One thing Matt Cutts says in the video is that the Google Webmaster tools will show you all of your backlinks.
  
  I recently added a number of backlinks using Angela's info. It under a week it made a HUGE difference in my rankings for a certain keyword I wanted (although I seem to be stuck on page 2 atm).
  
  I know these backlinks had an effect, so Google must know about at least some of them. However, zero of them are showing in WMT. Any ideas why? Is WMT slow to update or something?
  
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- Jimerson Farveez 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Heman Patel
  
  Agree, here is video answer from Matt Cutts
  
  That is great buddy, Thanks for sharing....Cheers
  
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John Hocking 15 years ago

Originally Posted by KirkMcD

If you want to see your links on Google, sign up for Google's Webmaster Tools.

Wow I never really paid attention to the links section in webmaster tools.

I am finding out interesting information about who is linking to me.
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webmatic 15 years ago

Well i myself sometimes get different results on yahoo and google and i prefer yahoo for checking backlinks and google for page indexing.
John is also right that you should install analytics as that's the best way to track each and everything and it even gives you clear traffic sources from bing, yahoo or google or even referring sites.
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KirkMcD 15 years ago

I've seen upto a two month delay before backlinks show up in Webmaster Tools.
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CDawson Banned 15 years ago

Try typing your website in quotes in the google search box, it tracks all websites out there that have your link embedded anywhere in them (ofcouse those sites have to be indexed in google as well).
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- Intrepreneur 15 years ago
  
  If you want to find your links, use your site name
  
  if your site name is
  
  page3chicksarehot.com
  
  then search
  
  "page3chicksarehot" or "page3chicksarehot.com"
  
  It's a good way to find out where your links are coming from.
  
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Liquidgraph 15 years ago

Google does not show up all of your backlinks, moreover some links might get indexed by yahoo,but not yet indexed by google, the best solution is to track your backlinks using google webmasters account.
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Amenda Jessera 15 years ago

I am sure if we search for "yourdomain.com" that will list out the places where your link is placed.....however, If you placed a link in anchor text, I don't think this helps, again you have to follow the method by Matt Cutt....
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