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"Link" keyword in Google Search

Using Google search to find out who has links to your site

         

dayo

7:42 am on May 26, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Hi

Can someone shed some light on how the "Link:www.your-domain.com" search within google works?

I tried this for my site and the results that came back showed that only one site had a link to my site, when in fact i know that numerous sites link to my site. Does anyone have any ideas what may be causing this?

Cheers

BeeDeeDubbleU

8:46 am on May 26, 2005 (gmt 0)

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In actual fact it doesn't work. It is notoriously innacurate and it does not display all the links to your site. You'd be better doing this on Yahoo. Just remember that Yahoo requires a space between the colon and domain name while Google does not.

I just ran a check on one of my sites and Google is reporting 53 links while Yahoo reports 158.

coconutz

9:01 am on May 26, 2005 (gmt 0)

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>>Just remember that Yahoo requires a space between the colon and domain name while Google does not.

Try the following:

link:http://www.example.com for individual pages
linkdomain:www.example.com to see all links.

amphibian

4:01 pm on Jun 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Seems that linkdomain: does not work. I have the same problem. Is there any solution on how to find all back links?

arran

4:17 pm on Jun 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Seems that linkdomain: does not work.

Make sure you omit the "http://" when using linkdomain.

amphibian

6:43 pm on Jun 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Yep, I'm sure. The result is "nothing found". So everything I have is a result of link: query. And this result is for sure not the one that I can expect.

Fribble

4:54 am on Jul 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Are you sure that the pages that link to you are in Google's index? The Link: query will only find indexed pages. Do a few searches for those pages since you know what they are and see if they show up.