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Is Google Webmaster Tools accurate?

Discussion in 'Google' started by plusplustutoring, May 2, 2010.

  1. #1
    Our website has many backlinks but Google Webmaster Tools only mentions a small percentage of them. Is Webmaster Tools even accurate?
     
    plusplustutoring, May 2, 2010 IP
  2. anouar

    anouar Peon

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    Hi :)

    I remember "Matt Cutts" confirmed that backlinks shown by google webmaster tools are pretty accurate. just make sure that your backlinks are "founded/indexed" by google itself, otherwise they have no power (till google find them)

    best, :)
     
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    Sxperm Notable Member

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    It is 100% accurate of course. But the links shown in GWT are only ones that counted by Google perspective. I would not recommend you to compare between links in Google and other search engines. Yahoo Siteexplorer can give you more insight about overall link popularity but that is ones counted by Yahoo perspective and not Google.

    If you do optimizing for Google, then use data from Google and not other backlink checker tools.
     
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    No it is not accurate. Nowhere near. I have a 5 year old site that has over 10,000 links and Google shows about 40 of them. Most of the links have been there for years, and I check on them regularly, and a lot of them even have PR.
     
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  5. anouar

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    @ Sxperm I agree 100% :)
     
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    I don't think it is accurate. If you consider other Google Tools like the 'average cost per click' in Adwords, which is wildly inaccurate, then it you'll realise that it's nowhere close....
     
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    rajeshn07 Well-Known Member

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    Not that accurate. And so too is Analytics. There are variations when compared with other hit counters.
     
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    Not too accurate. Dead links are constantly shown in my WT, altough I know for sure those links are dead for well over a year now (the websites were also mine), and also there are a lot of links not shown in WT that appear in google search. It's a place to start tough, and provides a few important statistics.
     
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    Not too accurate beacuse exist a delay between when you receive that links and when crawler index that links.
     
    BabBarDeL, May 2, 2010 IP
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    I'm not sure, I always combine with other tools to check my back link regularly...
     
    1rani, May 2, 2010 IP
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    SearchBliss Well-Known Member

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    Webmaster tools for backlinks is accurate, the link: operator in Google only shows a small amount.
     
    SearchBliss, May 2, 2010 IP
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    Webmaster tools is only based on the links within Google's Database, not on all of the links linking to our website.
     
    tjsocr22, May 2, 2010 IP
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    I think none of the webmaster tools are accurate. you need to cross verify it by using different tools and then take the best one out.
     
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    #14
    u can't say Google webmaster is 100% accurate.
     
    Michael smith, May 3, 2010 IP
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    Backlinks displayed on Webmaster Tools are indeed accurate but there is one small problem with the reports and that is the data might not get updated very fast. Sometimes the links added several weeks ago might still not show up there yet.
     
    bermuda, May 3, 2010 IP
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    Webmaster tools are accurate .Google shows a small amount of your link because it is only based on the links within Google's Database,not on all of the links.
     
    zesmedia, May 5, 2010 IP
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    can we able to find the traffic stats of a website using web master tools?
     
    Jamesdp88, May 13, 2010 IP
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    Yes,Google webmaster tools is 100% accurate.
     
    clbyodo, May 13, 2010 IP
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    #19
    I'm a bit concern about that backlinks checking, it's not so acurate.
     
    jucychau, May 13, 2010 IP
  20. jucychau

    jucychau Guest

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    #20
    Any one noticed that google changed theme recently?
     
    jucychau, May 13, 2010 IP