I just checked my backlinks for my site saw 4 trailer and it says i only have 2 google backlinks. I really cant believe it. I have submitted my site to well over 500 directorys over the last few months and i only have 2 backlinks!! Am i missing something with backlinks? Can someone please explain to me what im missing. It would help a lot. PS. i have about 160 or so yahoo BLs thanks, logan
in google to get a backlink is really not easy, and i think google and yahoo they use defferent rule to count the backlinks
Google does not show all links and does not count all links like yahoo does. Just keep getting links and you will do fine. Most sites have half as much links in google as yahoo or less.
Google only displays a small random samplling of their links with the link: command. But if you go into Google's Webmaster Tools you'll see your full link Google link profile. I think Google does this to keep webmasters guessing (about their competitors) and to keep people from figuring out their algo. For this reason I use Yahoo Site Explorer to compare other sites to each other and to mine but Google's Webmaster Tools is a great way to look at the links coming into your site.
The competitors can and do use the links of one another to help with their own link building. You can learn a lot by following your competitor backlinks.
google is not showing all of your backlinks with link:sitename.com . is google webmaster tools showing 2 backlinks for your web site or more?
In addition to the searching algorithm google do not update backlinks so frequently and make available for viewing
I was wondering about this because now and always the link: command in google search has shown 0 links coming into my site.
Yes I noticed that too. Google always have less backlinks but it is faster than yahoo to index new pages
"why are my Google backlinks lower than yahoo backlinks?" They are playing poker... When you play poker do you show everyone your cards?
Actually the opposite is more accurate. It is Yahoo that indexes new pages faster...speaking from personal experience.
Agreed.. Yahoo generally indexes new pages faster.. or at least they let you know they know about the page sooner than Google does. And yes.. Google generally does not qualify or recognize as many pages as backlinks as Yahoo does for any given site. Google has higher standards.. or something..
Is a different in the algorith, basically yahoo follows all sorts of links aparently and google is more "peeky on cheking them"
Yahoo will display all your backlinks but google displays only backlinks to high PR pages. Hence, google will always show fewer backlinks than yahoo. There is a difference between the algorithm used by google & yahoo.