I was just watching this video about how to find the REAL amount of backlinks you have in the search engines and it said to type in the following: Google: links:http://www.yourdomain.com Yahoo: linkdomain:http://www.yourdomain.com Just change yourdomain.com to your own domain. You'll probably find out that you don't have nearly as many backlinks as you thought you did. Many people just type in their domain name and think that they have thousands of backlinks based on the results when that really isn't true.
This a good tool, but use yahoo if you want to see all your links, google will only show a fraction of them.
The way to find out the backlinks that google is actually currently counting is through their webmaster tools which lists the links. The link: search does not work and returns only a small selection of the links google is counting. My guess is google deliberately crippled that functionality for obvious competition regions. The backlinks google counts appears to be updated (from what I've seen) about twice weekly.
thorugh the method you have stated i have roughly 60 backlinks, webmaster tools shows 770, so there is a hige diffrence, prefer using webmaster tools as the source
I personally use Yahoo to check for backlinks, I have no idea why google shows less, because the pages that don't show in google do have a valid link on them, and the page is indexed by google so... in theory even if they don't show up on google's back link checker, they do count.
Easy. Yet you can see 100% of your links from Google Webmaster after you've verified your site. Basically, its to try and stop people from getting links from the same place that site did. Google is more than happy to show you (the owner of the site) all the backlinks, just not the public.
Thats just like a BMW. I can go buy a better car (spec wise) for far less, but it doesn't have that badge. Same with Google. Just because it can be found elsewhere doesn't mean they'll do it themselves. It makes them more exclusive.
what is the diffrence between this and just typing in yourdomaindotcom in google. I have always used that to check backlinks
I use that approach as well, to in effect predict what google will count. Basically I think that google only counts (adds to serp/pr) what is listed in the webmaster tools. Where as what google lists for a domain name (assuming it's a full proper, not no follow link) is the most up to date version of what it's found (As in some is not cross-referenced in it's index yet). at least that's my guess.
I use many different backlink checkers including Google webmaster tools SEO Quake Yahoo links IwebTool. Checkpagerank.