It appears that Google is much more particular about how it counts backlinks. They will aggregate similar links from the same site when counting backlinks although WMT will display all the separate links individually. Remember that Google is definitely the most serious in terms of trying to constantly advance their algo whereas Yahoo and other don't seem to really have any clear cut defined strategy. So they will list everything as it is, possibly because they couldn't be bothered to do the extra leg work in amalgamating the links.
Some great tips here. I actually never used Google Webmastertools before till reading about it in this thread. Thanks to all those that mentioned it.
After reading this thread I also started using Google Webmaster Tools, and have now written a blog post about the features. Here it is: http://getsomecashonline.com/search-engine-optimization-seo/google-webmaster-tools/
Be patient, young grasshopper. It can take a few months until your start getting some serious results.
i am seeing the same problem with my website. I have over 1000 back links yet i only have 20 in google.
wow,great suggestion, u guys r worrying abt getting page rank. i have a blog but my page rank is N/a. i have 7 backlinks from google. 320 yahoo links. my pages are indexed too what i shd say.
This is VERY common. Google doesn't show all the links to your site; this doesn't mean they are not there. Yahoo shows a larger percentage of your links. Don't depend on the number you see in Google; it's not real.
Lol, what the hell? I got an infraction for making this thread in the Google forum? So it gets moved to the SEO reviews? How is that more relevant? Since when did I want a review? Lol wtf r modz on.