Might be a waste of thread, but I got all excited, Google has updated backlinks to our site over the weekend!
What do you mean? they always updated our backlinks If what you mean is about PR update, it can't be this week
Actually, I just checked that google has updated backlinks for some of my sites. The PR update is near, I can smell it
Yeah google update backlinks yesterday and hope will update PR by the end of his month.So everyone is in a hurry to build more links.
You need to check in the google webmaster tool. The link: function shows only a small part of backlinks
Just remember that links and page rank as displayed by google are like looking at the stars, what you are seeing represents something in the past.
If that's the case then hurrying up with getting more links is not really going to have any effect on the upcoming PR. Google doesn't really care about your recent inbound links. You have to get quality links right after every PR update, THAT counts big time!
The PR and links shown by Google are irrelevant. Toolbar PR only matters if you are monetizing page rank in some way, .because the Page rank shown is not your real page rank, and is probably at least 3 months old if it ever was close to the real page rank. The tool bar is a tease tool. It pretends to give some useful info, but it's there for the purpose of transmitting data back to Google. There is a reason that the PR and link updates only happen a few times a year, it's to keep people interested.. and they don't have to use much in the way of resources by updating only a few times per year. When in reality the links and PR they use for ranking is updated on an ongoing basis.. There are tons of sits with PR 0 getting a lot of traffic from top rankings in Google..