Recently we have tried to invest more time in link building and other tips in general that we found would be positive for our pagerank. However, there's something I really don't understand. When searching for our webshop in google using: link:www.oursite.com ,we find only 4 results. When doing a normal search for oursite.com , there are a few more results, many of them are also links to our site. I checked them, there is no nofollow tag - so they should appear in the link: result. Does anyone have an idea why they don't? I suppose they also don't have any effect on our pagerank then... ps: of course the domain of our site is not oursite.com , I just don't want this post to appear on google when people are searching for our site
I was going to ask the same question because when I do it with my site it doesn't show any other site as well....while yahoo does. Anyone can help?
It's because Google is slow in updating their links and backlinks. It's the same for all new sites. Wait around another three months or the next PR update for all your links to show.
Uff.. Three months.... Well I'll wait... I'l think about obtaining more backlinks in this time.. Thank you for the info!
Even when the counts with them are updated they only show a sampling of what they know of anyway. I usually use yahoo site explorer
If you wish to know the backlinks to your site, use Yahoo Siteexplorer like many others here do- https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com