Why does my site show no Google links?

[morte canard]

Yep...a newbie here. I've scoured the forum trying to answer my own question, but no luck. (I'm not saying the answer isn't here...I just couldn't find it.)

I have been writing/submitting articles to ezinearticles and goarticles, and creating reciprocal links for a site for several months, but when I run a link analysis with WEBCEO software it shows that I have no Google links. Entering the site's URL in Google (links:www.mysitehere.com) yields zero links as well. I entered a different, but very popular site into the software and Google just to make sure I was doing it correctly, and many links were found.

The site is a commercial site with a Google page rank of 2, and it has been on-line for four years. I started the SEO process on it in March.

Does it take this long for Google to discover the links? Can I assume that if I make a Google search and find my article(s) which contain a link to my site that it should show up as a link in my queries?

This SEO stuff isn't as easy as it looks...but I'm learning.

Morte

[Camay123]

Google is very shy at showing backlinks and what they count as backlinks.

More detail are revealed about your site, when you use Google Webmaster tools.

It is normal for Google not to show links, I have had 81 links in Google for along time, while I have 15k in yahoo.

[boddog]

yea my site didn't show a single link from google
maybe they are the top SE

they want some reputations or something

being unique!

[zexy]

Google have their reasons not to show all links. Maybe to protect you from the competition? :) I don't know.
But you can always check your backlinks in Google Webmaster Tools or Yahoo.

[acitodg]

I just use google webmaster tools to check my backlinks. The yahoo site explorer works well too.

[ArticleScholar]

Google backlinks appear after PR update.