Hello! I cannot figure out why the number of backlinks retrieved by searching link:http://www.mysite.com is different from what I see in Backlink tracking for yahoo. I perform the checks at the same time. The results from backlink tracker are always lower than results retrieved by manual approach. Mostly they are lower by around 20% sometime if the number of backlinks is lower - around 1000 then its almost 50%. Is it a problem of Yahoo API that it does not show the same results as web query? Or is it the problem of datacenters not synchronized? I am based in UK and I have tried to get number of backlinks from my IP - I got - 209000. Then I tried from US IP - 216000 (Higher!!). And from tracker I get 183946. Which resultset is better to follow in analysis of keyword rankings? Cheers, Janusz
Yahoo is displaying "weird" behaviors after the major Y! update. I'm observing the same thing on many of my sites. I believe you should wait a bit before all the Y! datacenters get synchronized. The datacenter used when doing a manual search and that used when using "the tool" are different ones which accounts for this discrepancy