Google link command

Discussion in 'Google' started by chipsterbb, Jan 7, 2008.

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    Hey guys,

    New to digitalpoint, so thanks for having me and all that.

    Just a quick question to start with... why when use Google link:www. etc do I get a different number of links than WMT? Usually it's a lot less, and as a client knows this way of checking progress, it doesn't look too good...

    Cheers:confused:
     
    chipsterbb, Jan 7, 2008 IP
  2. Mike Taylor

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    #2
    The link: command on G will only show a very small sampling of the actual links. Yahoo is far better.
     
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  3. bedmo

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    Link: show the important backlinks, but you can see all the backlinks on Googla webmaster.
     
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  4. aira

    aira Active Member

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    using the link: command, Google shows random links so it's useless if you want to see the progress.. You can get more results by using Google Webmaster Tools
     
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  5. webdigo

    webdigo Banned

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    Link command at G isnt working anymore. You may try other ways.
     
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  6. rainborick

    rainborick Well-Known Member

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    The link: operator shows you the number of high quality links (traditionally links from pages with a PageRank score of 4 or higher) that point to the URL in question. The pages shown in the results are not likely to be the sources of those high quality links. You can get a more comprehensive list of the links that Google has seen by using the Webmaster Tools console.
     
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  7. Hersheys

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    link command in google only show a random sample that you see on your google webmaster tools.
     
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  8. Brandon Sheley

    Brandon Sheley Illustrious Member

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    this is wrong :rolleyes:
     
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  9. sweetlouise

    sweetlouise Well-Known Member

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    google webmaster tools is real time and the backlinks checker only gets updared every few months
     
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    They screwed up their own backlinks tool so that webmasters could not achieve higher rankings than their competition.
     
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  11. phughson

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    From my experience, I could notice increase in my SE rankings, when the number of links shown in google Link: command increased.

    I think it consideres only important links to list there
     
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  12. Link.ezer.com

    Link.ezer.com Peon

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    actually Altavista.com is a very good search engine too

    sometimes the lost world is even better

    :D
     
    Link.ezer.com, Jan 8, 2008 IP