Where the Hell Does Google Get the Number of Backlinks From?

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by rbf738, Jul 21, 2009.

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    For one of my sites I had about 20 (almost all from Ezine) awhile back, now I just checked and google is only giving me 5 even though I have several hundred article all pointing back to the site at Ezine alone, not to mention other article sites and the very little other marketing I do for it...I mean nothing from there and only FIVE?!

    The crazier part is that I now have a PR1 site which I'm pretty thrilled about considering it was a 0 for quite awhile.

    But yeah, can anyone explain the backlinks situation to me?
     
    rbf738, Jul 21, 2009 IP
  2. mjewel

    mjewel Prominent Member

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    Google only shows a fraction of backlinks to the public, and usually only the ones they think have some quality. You can sign up for their webmaster tools if you want to see all the backlinks.
     
    mjewel, Jul 21, 2009 IP
  3. hurn1

    hurn1 Well-Known Member

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    To show no of baclinks it will take time to indexing in google. Another reason is all backlink checkers are not same.
     
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  4. incomesinternational.com

    incomesinternational.com Peon

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    In all reality take no notice of Google when checking your backlinks. Matt Cutts himself has stated they will never all be listed.

    The best place to check what the search engines are seeing is Yahoo!. If you use FireFox then you should get the free seo book toolbar. It has a load of built in functions but show you the numbers of sitelinks and domain links for any page your visit.
     
    incomesinternational.com, Jul 21, 2009 IP
  5. jitendraag

    jitendraag Notable Member

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    Use google webmaster tools to find a better snapshot of your backlinks.
     
    jitendraag, Jul 22, 2009 IP
  6. sdweddings

    sdweddings Peon

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    They do that on purpose to avoid competitor link analysis (they don't want you getting the same links as your competitors). One site I like using to analyze my sites is http://www.diagnosticoweb.com/ It kind of has everything rolled into one.
     
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  7. chiendent

    chiendent Peon

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    Great link sdweddings! Thanks
     
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  8. jiexi

    jiexi Member

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    ehh, they just search the net and count any links going to your website, nothing speacil really..

    nice website btw. actually pretty helpful
     
    jiexi, Jul 22, 2009 IP
  9. gkd_uk

    gkd_uk Well-Known Member

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    If you want to see all your back links, login to your google webmaster account
     
    gkd_uk, Jul 22, 2009 IP
  10. hawkeye_seo

    hawkeye_seo Well-Known Member

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    ^even google webmaster does not show you all the backlinks.

    Google will never ever show you all the links, thats their policy, if they happen to show you all the links, other search engines will figure out their PageRank algorithm
     
    hawkeye_seo, Jul 22, 2009 IP
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    sameer-sj Active Member

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    hi mate,

    google don't show all the linkbacks infact it considers multiple linkbacks from same site as one, that is the reason why it shows only 5 for you.

    Also consider getting yourself a google profile, it would throw your Page rank to PR2 in the next update, and do some good link building - don't depend on article directories only:)
     
    sameer-sj, Jul 22, 2009 IP