I'm in Google Webmasters Tools, in backlinks section. I wanted to see if http://channel9.msdn.com/ is listed there, because I made some posts on Channel 9. But the links don't show up. I searched for rel="nofollow" attributes, but seems that those attributes are missing. So the website should let the search engine do their job. But, what's happening? Because I can't find any link from there. And the posts are 3-4 months old, so Google updated that list since then. And still nothing. It's something "evil" in their source code?
Yes. You can see here. If you look at the source code, you will find "serviciionline.net" as a link, near the username Yankee. Searched for "nofollow", but no results. So it should be ok. But something is wrong, because I can't find any backlinks from there. (That page is an example, I know it's a new comment so it can't be indexed so quickly, but I have comments there x months old)
A quote from google- You can perform a Google search using the link: operator to find a sampling of links to any site. For instance, [link:www.google.com] will list web pages that have links pointing to the Google home page. Note there can be no space between the "link:" and the web page URL. To see a much larger sampling of links to any site for which you have verified in Webmaster Tools: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=55281&ctx=sibling Another one - Monday, February 05, 2007 at 2:37 PM You asked, and we listened: We've extended our support for querying links to your site to much beyond the link: operator you might have used in the past. Now you can use webmaster tools to view a much larger sample of links to pages on your site that we found on the web. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/02/discover-your-links.html I've added the emphasis in bold - sampling, sample - google say they show a sample of your backlinks, not all of them.
I know how to find my inbound links in Webmasters Tools, and I see all of them (which I know that should exist), but I can't find channel9.msdn.com/... thru them.
It may simply be a case of Google not having crawled that page at all, or not having crawled it since you posted your link. When looking for a specific link, try checking to see if there's a copy of the page where the link resides in Google's cache and/or try the allinurl: operator on the page URL. Pages buried deeply within a site, even if its a trusted site like MSDN, do not get crawled very often and may well not be crawled at all if the PageRank score is too low.
PageRank for those pages are higher than 4, because they are kinda' old (some of them from last year), so I think Google indexed them well. Also, the pages where I have signature links are searchable in Google. allinurl operator works for some of them.