Google not looking at links

[eljacko]

I have found that despite having many links coming into my site goole has only found 70. Any idea why this could be? has anyone else had the same experience?
What do I do for google to see the one way links coming in?

[Marketing Guy]

Google sees all the links - they only show a selection using the link: command.

[eljacko]

so why is it that when using the command on other sites it shows a lot more?

[stinkfoot]

Dont bother looking at google it is all lies and piffle.

[sitexplorer.search.yahoo.com...]

[edited by: tedster at 11:35 pm (utc) on Jan. 10, 2006]

[Phil_Payne]

On my site they show none at all. Couple of hundred in Yahoo & Lycos.

Google's link: search is broken. They used to show the same as the others.

[g1smd]

It is not "broken".

It deliberately shows only a small selection of the known links just so that SEO people who concentrate on links for PR get no useful information from it.

There is a thread all about it, right here at WebmasterWorld, just a couple of years ago.

[eljacko]

Thanks,
But wouldn't showing less encourage people to get more links?

[g1smd]

Maybe, but they do it so that you cannot analyse your competitors links and get ideas from that as to what works and what does not.

[eljacko]

ok, what would be the best way to analyse?

[g1smd]

I don't analyse links.

Reciprocal linking, which i have never done, is dead.

Link farms, which I always thought would get penalised, now are - heavily.

Off-topic links, and just building massive numbers of links for the sake of PR always seemed to be a waste of time, so I didn't bother. Good job because it is now a big waste of time.

Just build links from related and on-topic sites, go for quality and not numbers. That is worth far more. Worry about your own site, not what other people are doing.

[eljacko]

How do you do that? I mean if you were to get links from someone else, they would expect a link back right?

[Telecaster1978]

Quality is definitely worth a lot more than quantity with linking but it wasn't all that long ago that reciprocal linking was touted as being an important aspect to SEO from a number of sources. I went out of my way to get reciprocal links with quality sites but I also focused on other important things. My site is number one and two on Google for my targeted search terms so what ever I did I guess it worked but I still do not know if it had anything to do with reciprocal links or not. I am launching a new site for a completely different business and I have been reading that the "Jaggar" update only boosts page rank by looking at other sites that are linked to you, but not reciprocally. How could that work? Does the Googlebot archive link information from sites it crawls and then refer to the archive to see if your site is in it when it crawls your site the next time around? That seems redundant and time consuming but I can't see any other way it could do that. Does anyone know?