when i go to google and look up my backlink it says i only have 2 but when i go to yahoo and look up the same thing its like 10,255. Im not sure what is wrong with it. can some one tell me what im doing wrong Thanks here is an image of what i mean
google backlinks shows random links a certain site has and I don't know why only few a your known backlinks are shown in it. some says that google shows only those quality links.
use google webmaster tools for an exact account of your sites backlinks that google has actually found.
In addition to this, to save me starting another thread.. Shouldn't all the sites I find when typing my domain into Google be counted as backlinks then ? For example if I type in xyz.com in Google and returns 30 results, assuming that none of those are from my own site, the rest are backlinks right ?
nope, because the site might only be refferingin plain text, you would need to search for link:http://www.abc.com but then you will only get the results since google last updated its backlinks, which is about 5-6 times a year. like i said use google webmaster tools