I used to have ONE backlink in google and that is now gone, I can do a search for my domain name maguireclan.net and I get a bunch of hits for it in forums and stumbleupon plus other sites but none of these show up under link:maguireclan.net help would be appreciated.
The link operator dont show many links, people say this operator only show appr %2 of total links. And you had 1 link? Try to build much more links, like hundreds or even thousands of backlinks
This is the same as doing it through the search with the link:. Back links take a while to show up. Often time, Google only shows a small percentage of what you have. It is better to check Yahoo to get a more accurate count of what you have for back links. I have over 1000 for one of my sites and it did not show up in Goggle as any for a long time and now it shows 8.
I had experienced this endeavour too. After some days, to my surprise, my page rank has been updated, and the backlinks have been functional again. you can always take a look at my blog, http://neel-ug.blogspot.com Thanks Neelesh