I have a website which got added in Yahoo directory around 5 months back. When i search for link:www.website.com in google, yahoo directory listing is still not indexed and as a result my rankings arent improving either. What should i do? Any idea. I cannt understand how can yahoo listings could take so much time to get indexed in google.
Is the page your link is on cached? If it is then Google knows about the backlink and they just don't report it. The link command returns only a sample of the backlinks it knows about.
Google's link search is useless. Don't assume anything from it. Google crawls sites faster than any other search engine so rest assured they know about it.
Try using the Google toolbar to search for your URL. Do this about 10 times in 1 week and your site will be listed within 10 days usually. You can also submit your sitemap to Google Isue a press release(PRWEB.com) and get indexed instantly.