Backlinks in Yahoo versus Google?

[Catfish]

Have you noticed that backlinks in Google only count for your homepage if they actually link to http://www.yourdomain.com but in Yahoo they count even if they link to a subdomain or subpage like http://www.yourdomain.com/your-keyword.html . I just thought it was interesting and if you think that it has any affect on link building strategy.

[digitalpoint]

Yeah, haven't you noticed that the query to get the links in Yahoo is linkdomain: rather than just plain link:?

Personally I think it's nice, but I also find it annoying at the same time because sometimes I want to know the links just to a specific page.

I think it would be cool if Google added linkdomain: as an allowed operator.

[disgust]

I'd definitely agree with that.

I'd also like to see an operator for google to show ALL backlinks.

[wozza]

yeah they always seem to be very different to google backlinks

[Steamboat]

Why doesn't Google show all backlinks anymore? Do they think that SEO's arethe only ones using this feature and it is not worth their time? It seems like it would be since many SEO are trying to drive adsense revenue

[alias420]

Those are good questions which google always seems to dodge. I've just gotten used to checking MSN and Yahoo for my backlinks.