Hello Guys, This is several months that I have been worried about my links and how different google and yahoo counts the links. I use Google Webmaster Tools and Yahoo Site Explorer for getting backlinks count. I have two questions which I hope someone can help me to find an answer. First I want to know if someone else has noticed google webmaster tools displays much more backlinks count than yahoo site explorer? I'm talking about 13times difference between these two tools. For example yahoo shows 1,000 backlinks but google webmaster tools shows 13,000 backlinks. My second question is: will yahoo site explorer backlinks count reach Google Webmaster backlink counts over time? For example after a year or a few month? Thank you for your help.
Google and Yahoo have very different algorithms for sorting and organizing the links to your website, not to mention different speeds, so they might never actually match up and be the same as you gain and lose links to your website - I wouldn't worry too much about it.