Anyone know why there is such a discrepency in the # backlinks in google vs. Yahoo? In google I get 700 but in yahoo I get 60,000. Is yahoo looking at links and google just looking at pages?
Google won't show all the backlinks it knows for a site but are still considered when calculating PR etc.
Use Google webmaster tools and check your backlinks there. Not only it will show more backlinks, it will also display more individual pages containing backlinks.
Thanks mightyb? My goal is to try to find out where I stand against the competition. If I am only able ot see my links acuratly via webmaster tools I guess I am ou tof luck. I was planning to use a site like linkdiagnosis.com to test backlinks to my site and see how my competition is also optimizing.
Your competition will be effected just like you are in terms of links not being displayed properly. You should still be able to use this limited information to get some of the backlinks your competitors have managed to find and so on. I personally use Yahoo for backlink research as it is more up to date and gives you better results compared to Google.
Yahoo seems to list backlinks earlier than google for some reason so I find it quite useful to look at the Yahoo backlinks to give you an idea of what you can expect from google when they next update!
both are different search engines and because of this they are showing different results. i think there is no relation between them
I think google do not count all links. Maybe multiple forum post or do follow comment post. I think they want different websites not multiple comments. Also maybe the link does not match criteria.
The difference is Yahoo seems to list backlinks earlier than google for some reason so I find it quite useful to look at the Yahoo backlinks to give you an idea of what you can expect from google when they next update!
Google counts all do follow links; they just don't display all of them. I think its got something to do with saving processor time for proper search queries. Yahoo shows most links, even the nofollow links which doesn't help your ranking in Google.
yahoo looks at links to rank you , that no news anymore while google looks at what makes your page unique in terms of SEO