Questions on link:www.mydomain.com

[cgchris99]

I have been reading info on using link:www.mydomain.com to report the links back to the main site.

I know google has indexed about 1280 pages on my site but link:www.mydomain.com shows 32

The link back to the main page is www.mydomain.com/index.html is this why I get 32 instead of 1280?

Should I change the home page link to www.mydomain.com and leave off the index.html?

Thanks for any advice

[takagi]

If www.mydomain.com has the same PageRank as www.mydomain.com/index.html AND they have the same backlinks (i.e. 'link:www.mydomain.com' and 'link:www.mydomain.com/index.html' has the same SERP) then it's quite sure Google sees them as 1 page.

Don't worry too much about backlinks. Google is no longer consistent for this function.

[cgchris99]

I know it's not consistant. But I show up as #3 for one of my keyword phrases. The only reason I can see is the backlink count.
The two above me have backlinks of 35 & 42. Mine should be at least 1200. But the toolbar shows 30.

One has a PR of 5 (same as me) and the other has no PR.