?domain.com shows backlinks but not link:www.domain.com ?

[dcristo]

Quering Google for backlinks using ?domain.com shows most of my internal pages and very few backlinks, however using link:www.domain.com shows none. Does anyone know why this is? I always use the URL www.domain.com for the anchor link.

[dcristo]

By the way, the example domain.com was just for illustation purposes

[awall19]

1. why do you always use the url as the anchor text?

2. link:www.bla.com is an advanced operator

?whatever just shows any page that has whatever in its text.

[dcristo]

What I was trying to say is I use <a href="www.domain.com">Whatever</a> instead of just domain.com

[awall19]

Originally Posted by dcristo

What I was trying to say is I use <a href="www.domain.com">Whatever</a> instead of just domain.com

then what backlinks are showing show when you do link:www.mysite.com

and ?bladabladablada.com just finds pages that have the text "com" and "bladabladablada" on them

[dcristo]

Originally Posted by awall19

then what backlinks are showing show when you do link:www.mysite.com

No backlinks using link:www.mysite.com thats why I am a little concerned. Most pages are cached with Google though. The site is only about 3-4 weeks old. I would have thought this last backlink update would have had some effect though.

[awall19]

you just need to give it time

[bcombs]

I agree with awall. Just wait. It can take two or three months even before Google sees a new link as a backlink.



Brian