I used iWebTools Link Popularity Tool for a site of mine and this is the results i got.. Google - 0 MSN - 955 Yahoo - 43,900 Altavista - 45,600 Why is google links 0? I have reciprocal links from other sites to mine. (But not as many as altavista or yahoo are suggesting) link:www.mysite.com - 0 results site:www.mysite.com - 42 I have about 130 pages so 1/3 of my site has been indexed. Just wondering why google shows my links as 0.
Indeed, google update their partial backlink count at varying intervals so you will never get accurate results there. Not that I would expect a lot of love from them. 45,000 backlinks from a site with maybe 42 pages indexed, very unnatural at first glance and could do you more harm than good.
I went to altavista and searched for "link:www.mysite.com", it came up with 45,600 results but it didnt let me go past page 4, weird. I got the domain after someone didnt to renew it for ages, the only thing i can think of is that its the linkbacks they did.
Google shows only a partial list of backlinks to your site. You'll probably see some on the next update, but the number will be lower than those of the other SE's.
Google only shows about 10% of actual links. Sometimes they don't even show a link in their own directory to your site. It's totally random as to what they will show. To get an accurate count use Yahoo. But also check the www and non-www version of your domain if you haven't 301 redirected it yet.
The 0 (zero!) links is what confused me. My site has been up for 2 months now, its even got a PR of 2! But in the last week my traffic from google has gone down 70%! My site has gone from the first page of google results to pages 5 onwards. As 90% of my traffic comes from google, there had been a huge drop in traffic. So this got me wondering if google backlinks had anything to do with it. How often do google do their link updates?
have you tried any other tools? like Link Popularity Check? How old is the site? If its been around for a while, it should have had a few backlinks in the recent backlinks update, unless ofcourse it is banned by Google for some reason.
It it my experience watching about 40 sites that it usually takes 80 actual links before your site will show any links in Google and then they only show a bare minimum of those--about 10%. If your site has been online for only two months then this looks like the sandbox effect: Google will allow your site to rank like normal for a few months and if it doesn't generate enough traffic then put it in the sandbox for up to a year. There is no way out of this that I know of other than to continue to build up your site with content and links and find another way to generate traffic in the meantime (of course Google would like that to be AdWords). It is not on a set schedule but usually every 2-3 months. Last one was around July 13. They will give you credit for new links right away however (barring the sandbox) they just won't reflect the number in the google toolbar until the update.
Those were the results i got with Link Popularity Check: Google - 0, MSN - 955, Yahoo - 43,900. The site is 2 months old. I hope i'm not banned, if i was would my pages still be showing as indexed?
If Yahoo's count is accurate, how did you manage to get so many links in two months? Google has started penalizing sites for gathering links too fast by using link submission schemes, i.e., submit to thousands of sites. If you did this it could be a penalty and not the sandbox or it could be both, i.e., you gathered links too fast so they put you in the sandbox. I designed a site in late march and gathering links slowly (a few per month) and it's been ranking at the top of Google for major keywords ever since--no sandbox and it's been 4 months. Usually if your're banned your site totally disappears from Google's index. If you're penalized however, your pages may still appear in the index but your rank drops.
I found out the reason! I swapped sitewide links with a lyrics site. The site had 50,000 lyrics so i got that many links.
yes that might be the reason. google doesn't like unnatural links. That large number of links on single day and that too from same ip would definately ring a bell.
Lesson learned, dont do sitewide link exchanges unless you're an establisehed site! I guess i'll just have to sit out the 6-8 months in the sandbox
No, just ask them to remove the site wide links--even if it means you throw away some money. Soon as Google indexes their site again things should improve.