Anyone know the answer to these two questions. I brought up a new site and was wondering when backlinks would be updated.
I just checked mine in webmaster tools and there has been an update this week on mine, now showing about 300 more than before.
I've seen google update backlinks, but no corresponding pagerank update on about half a dozen domains of mine, that have all come online starting about 9 months ago. These domains moved up in ranking real well, better then higher pagerank pages. Removing the supps and now the lack of pagerank updates to relatively new sites of mine, suggest g might be trying to combat the secondary seo market they opened up with those two features. just my thoughts.
IMHO, Backlinks updates is already finished.. It happened I far as I remember last August... Read this link
Mine have been updated 3 or 4 times in the last month. I think they've moved away from the monthly webmaster tools backlink updates. After all, monthly updates are practically useless to someone on a link building campaign. I think this may have been a case of Google actually listening to webmasters and increasing the BL update frequency.