Strangely my blog have no google backlinks nor links that could be found on link:yoursite.com I am pretty sure there are blogs that linked to me but still no results. Have anyone faced such a problem before?
Don't care about what google shows to you. It is not reliable info . check backlinks in backlinkwatch or somewhere else (yahoo).
Agree with grg. Google often hides backlinks showing only some of them. Yahoo's sitexplorer is more reliable in this regard. Or you may try alternative services as this one: http://www.seologs.com/link-analysis-tool/backlinks.html
Getting your blog url on high PR blogs and websites will eventually get you showing up with backlinks. It takes time with Google. Just keep working on ways to get backlinks and it will pay off in the long run. Even a page that has a PR0 could become a PR3 or higher someday giving you another quality backlink.
Agreed. Specifically setup G account and initiate Google sitemap. Once account setup/established, check back from time to time to see both inbound links found and internal links. As for Yahoo, check linkdomain:mysite.com (replace with your site name) to see inbound links.
link:mysite.com is unreliable Google Webmaster is also very unreliable The first of these two show that I have 5 backlinks. Google webmaster shows that I have 185. However, I know the real number is about double or triple that. It doesn't list any directories I'm in, or even my friend's website home page, which displayed my link for about 6 months so far (and is not nofollow).
Google hides most of the links they actually have because they don't want anyone knowing anymore about their algo
Login to Webmaster Tools... Last time I checked they have a lot more backlinks listed than if you just do a link:domain.com Apart from that it's what I'd call an essential tool for your website
google is updating the link:sitename.com results from time to time. you can use google webmaster tools to check your backlinks
great guys, i know the webmaster tool from google, but its just not workign that well, i guess i will just stick to the no backlink at the moment and see if my pr jumps soon...haha! thanks all for your help and comments!
Not really it is their algorithm.... Meaning they don't display your backlinks only sample of but it doesn't mean you don't have backlinks.. You have of course...
i was just checking out this one site that has 53k yahoo backlinks and just 300 google. they have a weird system probably.
it would also depend on when links were created to your blog. it takes time for search engines to recognize your back links. If you use Firefox you can get extension called SeoQuest it will tell you google, yahoo and msn backlinks.