Alright Chaps, I was just wondering if any of you experts would know how long it takes to update the links pointing to your site via the google webmaster tool? When I search for my site www.xboxgladiator.com there are lots of links pointing to the site that arent visible on the tool. Whats strange is that these links are found through google search so I would expect it to update in real time. Cheers, J
For sec of now,there are no links pointing to ur site in Google http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=link:www.xboxgladiator.com&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=undefined&fp=1
Maybe you need to work more on building backlinks for your website, and then just give it more time and wait
Google itself says somewhere that what is shown in webmaster tools is only a sampling of the links. So, it's hard to know what it really sees, and which links really "count".
Not sure what went wrong but there are links: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22xboxgladiator%22&hl=en&lr=&start=0&sa=N
these are not ur backlinks or links pointing to ur site backlinks in google are checked by searching for, "link:www.domain.com"
the link:yoursite tool has not worked for a couple years now it is better to do the link:yoursite at yahoo.
I agree. Yahoo will give you much better results for your backlinks than Google will. In addition Yahoo seems to update your links faster than Google does as well.
If you have correct wordpress theme and yu update your content daily the link indexed of Google I believe happen all day and daily.more over for yahoo,my site is turning from some hundred to thousand after about 1 week only update the content and ping that out with pingler
URL of any page on the web that is having your site's URL on it is called as a backlink to ur site...for e.g if u have ur sites inner page pointing to ur home page then its counted as a backlink to ur home page..same thing applies for the any web page out there. and yes, Google will never show all the backlinks to ur site as it tends to hide its algorithmic data from manipulators and competition i.e yahooo, msn... Yahoo so far is the place to check the most correct no. of backlinks, go to yahoo and search for, link:wwww.domain.com..u will be redirected to yahoo's site explorer to show ur backlinks
Watch Matt Cutts video on youtube. He explains that the link:www.sitename.xxx is only a RANDOM SAMPLE of your total links. This is to stop competitors looking up others links (although you can still do it with Yahoo Explorer). The only true way of knowing what your Google backlinks are is by looking in Webmaster Tools (external and internal links). In my experience they can take some time to refresh (weeks).
In Webmaster Tools I have found many nofollow links too... Does this mean google make the nofollow link count?