Hello everyone, I talked to my friend on the phone yesterday and he is worried about his backlinks in Yahoo. He keeps track of his links and it was about 2500 backlinks on Y! for the most of the time. His web site is pretty small - about 500 pages indexed in Google and only 200 in Y! He doesn't do any heavy link exchange and haven't done any at all for a long time since web site maintenance and promotion is not his specialty. He is checking his backlinks pretty often and told me that his IBLs went up to over 200K yesterday - I saw actually more on my end and today I see 822K for the linkdomain: command. Even regular links: shows over 65K which is still too much. His concern is - too many links at the same time and may be his competitors trying too hard to get him off the top spots (since he is in competitive real estate market). This is really odd since I was helping this guy with his site and promotion from time to time, but nothing has been done probably since the new year. Any ideas? I checked on my other sites and don't see any pattern, so it doesn't look like Yahoo acts weird, just for that one site. Looking at all this I'm just lost.. I'm running a real estate directory that has about 20K pages indexed in Y! and G and I'm in the Co-op and still only about 85K backlinks in Y! (which is not that bad to me), but 822K overnight! I just don't get it.
I had a similar thing happen in Yahoo. My links jumped from a couple thousand to more than 38,000. links!!!! Either Yahoo is screwing something up or my DMOZ listing has suddenly propigated to thousands of new little directory sites. I've noticed no adverse effects from this, however.
well, the owner/my friend din't want to mention his site since he doesn't know who is looking and if someone has an agenda...
I wouldn't doubt it for a second- digitalpoint shows over 3,000,000 http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=linkdomain%3Awww.digitalpoint.com&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t&fl=0&x=wrt
My friend just figured it out - he made a search without omitting duplicate results and found out that one link is being repeated over and over thousands times. So, that's just Y! glitch... funny.
well, it depends - if your site makes you at least $100K a year - will you risk adding 800K links overnight?
"shouldn't", but google pays attention about it. I know Y! ang G results have nothing to do with each other, but if those links were for real that would be different.
If the site is doing well, the instinct is to keep doing the same. I would be concerned if my links had jumped that high
lol of course it does Not as much as the importance and relevance of the sites they are coming from though
Yahoo is getting crazy with links. For every site i track, links increased across the board by a minimum of 9x what they were. This held for a over a month. The other day, each site came crashing down to a little above normal again. Either way, no problems in rankings or anything like that. I just think it's Yahoo going nuts with their numbers.
The easiest way to check back links in the three major search engines is to use an extension in Firefox called "Search Status," truely a beautiful tool.