zero backlinks in google?

JERRY JULIANO · 10-19-2007, 08:29 PM

Hey guys, I have just started a link building campaign for a site, and I'm using Google Webmaster Tools to check the backlinks. It's showing 895...

But, when I do a link:www.raleighmortgagepro.com manual check, I get ZERO!

Same with any of the other tools, that categorize backlinks by search engines.
But, with smartpagerank, i get 946 total.

Anybody know why this is?

x3mario · 10-20-2007, 09:34 AM

Google shows only the quality links.....same case on my site...

corlock · 10-20-2007, 09:36 AM

if you want to check for all possible links you have, try to do it in Yahoo!

coolguy27 · 10-20-2007, 02:06 PM

Here is the

for your answer..

Just see my previous post...

You can view your backlinks through http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Hope this clears you....

JERRY JULIANO · 10-20-2007, 02:38 PM

thanks for the replies, guys!

Actually, I am looking at the links in www.google.com/webmasters/
That's the weird part. It shows I have 895 links... but if I do a manual backlink check at www.google.com, it shows zero. Same if I use www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/

I have a ton of 4 & 5 PR pages linking back.

What gives?

Mike Taylor · 10-21-2007, 04:42 AM

Jerry -

Yes, Google webmasters will show you, the site owner, many more links that if you just Google to search for links. As far as why they do this, I don't know.

Buskerdoo · 10-21-2007, 05:44 PM

Webmaster tools and site:www.xyz.com on Yahoo will give a better idea of backlinks than checking backlinks on google. They only give a random sampling of backlinks and usually only show a few at that.

MajorTom · 10-21-2007, 08:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Buskerdoo

Webmaster tools and site:www.xyz.com on Yahoo will give a better idea of backlinks than checking backlinks on google. They only give a random sampling of backlinks and usually only show a few at that.

actually...

linkdomain:mysite.com -site:mysite.com

Will give you the accurate backlink total in Yahoo search. The only to get the real total of Google backlinks is using the webmasters tools. It's been like that since July.

JERRY JULIANO · 10-22-2007, 06:45 AM

ok, great. I don't understand why google would do that, but I guess they have their reasons! Thanks for all the help guys.

Hopefully it will update or something, because i can understand google showing only a handful of links if my total link count was 50, but for my site to have almost 900 links in yahoo and 0 in google & google webmaster tools is crazy!

MrCat · 10-22-2007, 09:36 AM

I would also suggest you try doing a query in Yahoo on your backlinks...

gunjanp · 10-24-2007, 07:05 AM

Through link command in google you can see only quality links as per the google.
If you want to see links from external sources then your should to use yahoo or your should to use Backlink Analyzer software.

If you have a rights of google webmaster tools then you should to use that for knowng your backlinks.