What is the difference between a back link and link in google terms?If I search for my website in Google search I get lots of sites with my url on their page, which I thought would be the same as a back link. However a search of link:<my url> gives no results.
A link is a Uniform Resource Locator(URL), also known as a web address. Example: http://www.google.com The URL would be google.com A backlink is a link on another website linking to your website.
It is normal if your website has no backlink. Google doesn't consider all links as backlinks, only good quality links.
You can try out the Yahoo backlink checker for more complete backlinks listing As the above posters have mentioned, Google does not list all the backlinks.
Any estimates on how many lets say, back links (with what PR) you need to get from say, a PR4 to a PR6? Like I remember one of my sites, I rarely got backlinks for it, yet it became a PR5. Not sure how, I check all my links and it wasn't many really, just a couple links from forum topics in popular forums (not high PR back links). Any ideas?
Try to check your links in the Google Webmaster Tools, or go for Yahoo site explorer to get more results.
Google simply doesn't show all backlinks if you use link:yourdomain.com. Even quality BL are often not shown. They update the BL list once every 3 months. See more links that point to your site in Google webmaster tools and even a better idea in Yahoo as they update the data on a regular basis.
backlinks are links from other site to your site. You can check the number of backlinks of your site through different link checker online. links in terms of google is indexing the quality backlinks you have in your site.