When I go to G and check my bl's I enter 'link:www.yourdomain.com' and you will get your results. When you enter the same query with a space before the 'www' eg. 'link: www.yourdomain.com' the results are so different? Does anyone know why? Cheers,
Found this info on another forum -- I didn't know it either until now. While link:www.domain.com shows backlinks with PR>4 (sometimes even PR3), link: www.domain.com shows pages with the word link: and www.domain.com in the content. Here's where I found it. http://forums.seochat.com/archive/t-12231/linkwww-vs-link-www-incoming-links-not-being-listed
This is not true anymore. Google used to only display PR3 and higher sites on using the link: command but that has changed since a few months now. You now see a random list of BLs to your site following no "known" pattern.
Ah.. cool -- thanks for the info. Ever get that feeling that Google is just out there to mess with all of us? There don't seem to be any known patterns to anything with those guys.
I don't get any BL's when i don't use a space, but when i use the space, i get some up. it's strange. MSN is seeing a lot of my backlinks, but looks like google is seeing none
Hi there, to get a rough idea of the overall number of BL in G's index, there's always the search: www.yoursite.com -inurl:www.yoursite.com Not perfect but better than nothing.. Cheers, Johann
Thanks webcertain ....I get 110 from that search which makes me feel a little better. I have the optilink tool and that comes up with no links from google yet it spiders my site at least twice a day and rates it a PR2 ....3327 from msm and 623 from yahoo which is on my site constantly although my logs don't show that it has ever been there .
See also http://www.bandofgonzos.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=401. So that was you at SEO-Chat, fryman? Back then you were known as Spamkiller, as I recall. That was like my first post on that board and after your response it was my last. I've no wish to return to that moment but you really were behaving like a jerk that day.
I believe inurl:www.yoursite.com is how many pages G has in thier index. Thanks, I was not aware of this.
Correct query? IMO site:www.mysite.com or inurl:www.mysite.com will give you results close enough to be assimilated, and they both look for the same info (ie. any results with www.mysite.com in the Url) Cheers, Johann
Thanks for clarifying Really good to know...I will assume the source is reliable. So when I want to check my pages that Google has indexed site:yourdomain.com, right! I still am having difficulty understanding that space. Even with 'site:www.yourdomain.com' or 'site: www.yourdomain.com' (space added before www). The results (for me) are astondingly different.
The source of that quote is Google itself. As for the space thing, it's because when you insert a space, Google treats it as two separate words instead of a special search: link: [space] anything searches for pages with the word "link" or the word "anything" link: [space] www.yourdomain.com searches for pages with the word "link" or the word "www.yourdomain.com" link:www.yourdomain.com just looks for pages that link to www.yourdomain.com
How can you hate the Sens? How can you even remember them? No one's seen them in almost a year... Odd. Do you find you really don't miss NHL hockey at all?
A bit off topic. Yes, I have Been and NHL fan for years...not now. They're all a bunch of greedy ba#%erds. If you recall in the early 90's when the blue Jays pulled the same sh*t where did they end up? Why must the fan be help ransome? We are innocent! We are their lifeline...PRICKS! I have found a new sport that I really enjoy now...women's tennis. I am not a tennis fan, at all Cheers
Except of course that only shows you backlinks in MSN. It won't tell you whether other search engines recognize those backlinks.