I have not been able to have any luck getting google backlinks. MSN and Yahoo I have had some success. Any recomendations? Thanks.
I bet it's a brand new site, isn't it? Google only update their backlinks at the same time as the PageRank export which is about 4 times per year. You've just missed the last update, so there won't be another until maybe April time. Yahoo and MSN update their backlinks much more regularly, so that's why they show up. It's not that Google don't know about your backlinks - just they only share that knowledge with the rest of the world every three months or so.
I also wonder why absolute majority of sites, even those with highest PR, show much less back links by Google than by other search engines? Any ideas?
Because since late 2002, Google has only shown the higher quality links - originally those from pages with a PageRank of 4 or higher, but that may have changed since then. Then in late 2005, they stopped showing the actual pages where those links originated and now show a portion of all of the links for the URL in question to prevent people from cherry-picking their competitors' link sources. So the link: operator in Google is now best seen as an ongoing measure of a page's high quality links that is only updated with the PageRank data.
Totally ignore Google for checking backlinks because backlink is backlink and it should be displayed but Google shows only few backlinks. So for checking backlinks visit Yahoo! site explorer or backlinkwatch tool which is powered by Yahoo!
google is not showing all your backlinks . why ? i dont know but it's not showing all of your backlink . if you want to see all of your backlink , you can use msn or yahoo . you can use dp forum link sales forum to have more backlinks for your site
If there are other resources for checking full backlinks, then why does Google hide them? (Yahoo, MSN) Doesn't make sense to me.
Rainborick: Do you you know what competitors can do with "cherry-picking" link sources? Can they really use it against the site with large number of links? Another question, does Google derive PR values based on its "official" number of backlinks or based on "real" number of links?
A couple of years ago when Google's link: operator displayed the pages that were the sources of the high quality links for a URL, it was pointed out to a Google engineer over on another forum that it was an easy way for someone to discover the sources of a competitor's best links. So, you could then try to get links from your competitor's best link sources, and when added to your own, your rankings would eventually improve. It wasn't a case of directly damaging competitor's rankings as improving your own at their expense. But you could save a lot of legwork searching for strong, relevant links simply by checking the top ranking sites for your targeted keywords. Since then Google changed the link: operator so that it displays the number of high quality links in the same way it had done before, but the pages that get displayed in the results page listing are not filtered by PageRank strength anymore. My best guess is that its simply the top of their list of all of the links for the URL in question. PageRank is still derived from all of the links Google has seen.
Maybe the link: operator in Google has changed again because I'm seeing +50,000 links to my site from Google and usually I only see a few thousands (from yahoo +30,000).