In your google sitemap account there is a section that reports how many backlinks your site has. Is this number accurate? when i type in the google Link:website command i always only get like only 3 or 5 reported links, but in my sitemap account it currently shows 48 links. are these all the links that google takes into acount?
yes google doesn't gives correct report about actual backlinks but yahoo gives the actual report for your backlinks.