Searching for "mysite"

[reddevil]

Hi,
What is the difference between doing a search for "mysite" (without the www or the .com) and clicking on Backward Links on the Google Toolbar?

[Stefan]

Searching "mysite" will find the pages that have that text.

link:www.mysite.org will give you pages that are PR4 and over, (generally speaking, there are exceptions), that link to your index.

The difference is this:

"mysite" will find text that might not be links.

link:etc will find links that might not use the text, such as <a href="http://www.mysite.org"><img src="icon.gif" alt="bob's your uncle"></a>

That said, searching the url in quotes is a handy way to find links you don't find with link: . I do that myself.