Why does Yahoo count so many more backlinks than Google?

Yes, yahoo have faster update for backlinks. Google dont show all links, try compare results from yahoo and google.

 

I have two websites..I put my link for my new website on my old one..yahoo picked it up in just one day. Its been 4 weeks now and google still does not see it.

 

So many half answers here...

The "link:www.example.com" command in google only shows a small selection of links they know of

In Google Webmaster tools they now show all the links they know about, but you can't tell which are "nofollow" or discounted for other reasons.

I believe this tool - http://www.webmasterlogs.com/link-analysis-tool/backlinks.html
shows all domains that google counts as linking to a site - not sure how though.

the "linkdomain:www.example.com" in Yahoo seems to show all links they know about. Is a pain when you have sitewide links and they show 100s of links from one site, so it is hard to see how many domains link to your site.

Does anyone know a good tool for aggregating all the links Yahoo counts (counting a domain only 1 time) ?

 

Quality...No. They only show a sample of your links and nobody can tell you for sure (except Google) why they choose to show the links they do. If the links being displayed on Google were indicative of how well my link campaign was going...then I would be in some serious trouble.

 

I agree with you.
One of my site is on 1st pg of Yahoo and there is no address with Google.
I dont know why it is so!

-zaaylo

 

It's always like that.

 

Yahoo shows all links, also I think it counts 'nofollow' tags;

Google shows 1-5% of links, for sake to provenet SEO guys from reverse ingeneering;

 

http://www.smartpagerank.com/result.php?domain=http://www.volvospeed.com

According to that and several other sources including sitemaps I have almost 85K yahoo backlinks and 0 from google. I have learned to ignore pretty much any stat google gives me,

 

Google only shows random links to your website

 

Yeah i'm the same. yahoo shows me as having way more links. i thought i ws doing something wrong at first when i just kept checking google for back links and got discouraged then i checked on yahoo and found it indexed way more.

its true that googles webmaster tools shows more of the backlinks they have but i think it doesn't show all of them. i think maybe they want to only show quality links to try and discourage people from getting whatever links they can regardless of quality.

 

Google is lot more choosy than yahoo yahoo is much flexible.

 

both search engine's bots are diff. from each other ...when they crawling website ... they gets links from websites ...and creates database ..... on internet there are billions of webpages ....suppost if google crawls 2000 website ... it is not necessary that yahoo also crawls 2000 .... it cralws more or fewer then google .. this diff. is imp for backlinks ....

 

Google is picking up these backlinks, they are just a lot more private about what they publish...

...within the google webmaster tools the number of links to a given page is roughly the same as yahoo are picking up.

Also, try searching for the total google links "under consideration"

 

Incase we have many links from a single source google counts it as 1 link while yahoo and other engines show it as many links. There lies the difference. I have around 200 links as per yahoo but still not a single one from google.

 

sorry thats wrong, google just dont publish the data... here is a good example, check my site:

www.hostedwith.us (about 6 weeks old now)

yahoo read around 5,000 links,
google reads PUBLICLY 0 links
google WEBMASTER tools (private) reads 11,000 links.

The information that google PUBLISH is nowhere near what they actually know about.

also, check out matt cutts latest video interview at pubcon where he discusses that googles new algorithm can detect paid links and removes them from their private count

 

Google is very selective in backlinks.
I have 5 backlinks from Google and 390 backlinks from Yahoo for the same site.

 

Google takes just 1% of all the links indexed by the yahoo. Depending upon the number of yahoo backlinks, you can roughly arrive at the google backlinks by dividing it by 100.

 

believe Google...They are best

 

Yahoo takes each & every link it crawls.. also say from same url there 3 10 links then Y! takes ALL Google just take ONE this is main difference

 

yahoo are losing the competition so dont concentrate much on them....Google is still leading !