mjtaylor
msg:704784 | 7:08 pm on Nov 8, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Google doesn't provide a full list of backlinks ... for example, on one of my sites, G shows less than 100 BLs where yahoo shows more than 1,000 ... Hope this helps ... Cheers, MJ
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digicam
msg:704785 | 7:52 pm on Nov 8, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Hi, thanks for the reply - basically I was interested if there was an actual reasin for the difference - is it anything to be concerened about for example? cheers
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mjtaylor
msg:704786 | 12:16 am on Nov 9, 2005 (gmt 0) |
I believe that Google felt its backlinks feature was being abused ... among possible abuses: webmasters would (and still do on Yahoo) search for backlinks to a competitor's sites and approach those sites for a link. Cheers, MJ
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Ankhenaton
msg:704787 | 2:10 am on Nov 9, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Same here we went from 125 backlinks to over 170 in Google and the over thousand earned in 7 or 8 years are only shown in Yahoo and over 2000 shown in MSN. MSN reporting the accurate number.
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annej
msg:704788 | 2:45 am on Nov 9, 2005 (gmt 0) |
How do you search for backlinks on Yahoo and MS?
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Ankhenaton
msg:704789 | 2:48 am on Nov 9, 2005 (gmt 0) |
link:http://www.yourdomain.com the http:// has to be there at least in yahoo.
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a1call
msg:704790 | 2:57 am on Nov 9, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Hi,
IMO a more accurate way of searching for backward links on Google is the query:
"example.com"
Normally very few instances of such does not have an actual link to the site example.com.
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giggle
msg:704791 | 3:20 am on Nov 9, 2005 (gmt 0) |
digicam I have had much more success checking backlinks by using this command: [uk.search.yahoo.com...] -site:www.MYDOMAIN.co.uk&meta=vc%3D&fl=0&fr=fp-tab-web-t-1&b=1 It's not Google's list, but I think that it gives a better idea of who's linking to you. Mick
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Ankhenaton
msg:704792 | 3:35 am on Nov 9, 2005 (gmt 0) |
| Normally very few instances of such does not have an actual link to the site example.com. |
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Dont agree our site is example.de Google omits the . and the results are mostly in french example de bla bla bla. Example de Universite etc. Also tried it with quotes .. although I would be happy about the 2,620,000 backlinks lol. No need for G then..
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a1call
msg:704793 | 5:34 am on Nov 9, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Hi Ankhenaton, Interesting, you are correct. Google sems to behave differently for .com than .de However it seems to work if you include the tripple w: [google.com...]
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jtbell
msg:704794 | 6:34 am on Nov 9, 2005 (gmt 0) |
| Google sems to behave differently for .com than .de |
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That might have something to do with the fact that "com" is not a word in any language that I know of, whereas "de" is a rather common word in French. :-)
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digicam
msg:704795 | 9:04 am on Nov 9, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Hi, many thanks for the input, very useful, the concensus seems to be that the google toolbar link feature is not a reliable measure of backlinks and it is best to use yahoo. The command: link "domain.com" does work better on google and on yahoo the command:- link [domain.com...] works best. many thanks
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