Google Webmaster Tools - "Links to your Site" frustration

[Elric99]

Is it normal that yahoo backlinks shows a lot of incoming links to my website, but GWT shows only two. Two!? It's not even close.

Thanks

[curioustoddler]

Usually yahoo siteexplorer shows more backlinks than google webmaster account and in most sites it may be 3-4 times of GWT.

[BillyS]

Yahoo shows about twice the number of links we see in GWT.

[g1smd]

Do make sure you register your site as both www and non-www in WebmasterTools and look at the reports for 'both sites'.

There's a mine of information in the reports for the non-canonical hostname. Most people miss out on ever looking at that data.

[Elric99]

This is weird. The site is still not showing any backlinks. Surely google can't be that bad at finding them? I've got both the www and http versions in WMT.

[dertyfern]

I've had the same problem with one of my websites, which oddly enough, has over 100 links many of which are from government websites. WMT only lists 1 and has for the entire life of the site, over a year.

Frankly, it makes me to question all data on WMT.