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What is the preferred method of checking the number of listings or backlinks in Google? Do you use the 'www.' in front of the domain or not? For some sites, this makes a huge difference.
Thanks!
By using Yahoo. If yahoo knows about them, you can bet Google does. Google's link command is imcomplete at best, worthless as far as I'm concerned. ;)
What Google does show for backlinks is pretty close to proportional to the actual number of backlinks. What I am checking is my competitors, so the number of backlinks that Google shows is important when compared to the backlinks of other competing sites.
Can anyone answer my questions? It seems like I need some boolean OR statement so I can check link: and link:www at the same time, but nothing I've tried works.
Thanks for your help.
>>>What Google does show for backlinks is pretty close to proportional to the actual number of backlinks. What I am checking is my competitors, so the number of backlinks that Google shows is important when compared to the backlinks of other competing sites.
You must be getting some weird results then. Because Google shows the most incomplete sampling of overall backlinks of any engine according to every seasoned SEO I know.
>>> I can not find the backlinks in Google by checking for backlinks in Yahoo.
As I said in the first post - if Yahoo knows about a link, Google likely does too. So, essentially, looking at backlinks in Yahoo would show you what backlinks your competitors have that Google knows about.
You asked, I answered - sorry it wasn't the answer you wanted.
The site query is different (I did miss that in the title that site: was mentioned as well) - I prefer Google for this - searching with www and non www are both important - if you have more results coming up for a non www search than a www search, then your site likely has canonical errors - which could lead to serious Google problems down the road.
