Eventuly every page indexed will show a visible pagerank number. If I had a new site indexed today, I would be in the index, but not show any pagerank until the first pagerank update. Currently it looks like Google is going to quarterly pagerank updates. Even though a site does not show a visible pagerank it is assumed it has a pagerank that only becomes visible at next pagerank update. Shannon
Quite a while back, a very famous "gentleman" wrote an interesting article on this very subject. As is so often the case, thanks Compar!
Brother you have much to learn..lol. They spider the web dude and they keep track of those things (along with thousands of other things). FYI: What they show as your backlinks is only a fraction of what they really are. Use MSN or Yahoo for a better gauge of what Google is probably seeing.
To find number of backlinks in Google use the command link:www.yourdomain.com ; in msn use link:www.yourdomain.com ; and in yahoo linkdomain:www.yourdomain.com. I suggest you go to Google http://www.google.com/apis/ and apply for a Google API. One you get your API go to http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/ and set up an account to track your keyword placement in Google's SERPs (Search Engine Result Position). Shannon
Just a note, "linkdomain:" is not the same as "link:". The "link:" operator only counts pages linking directly to the operand. If you enter "link:www.google.com", you will only get results that link directly to http://www.google.com/, and not links going to http://www.google.com/search (as an example). The "linkdomain:" operator does domain wide matching so if you entered "linkdomain:www.google.com" it would include both links to the root page, that is http://www.google.com/, but also any other URIs on that domain such as http://www.google.com/search. Yahoo offers a "link:" operator as well. The other search engines to do not offer equivalents to the "linkdomain:" operator.
Yes, I think so. I think www.yahoo.com pages would count as links to search.yahoo.com if you entered "linkdomain:search.yahoo.com", you can explicitly exclude domains from the count with the "-domain:" operator. E.g. : "linkdomain:search.yahoo.com -domain:www.yahoo.com"