If I go to Google and type link:montana-riverboats.com
Google reports there are only 2 sites linking in, when
that number used to be many more.

Alexa reports 35 sites linking to http://montana-riverboats.com
Is this disparity because of something mis-configured on my part,
or haywire on Google's, or what?

On 27 Feb 2007 04:51:33 -0800, "darnel" <Sandy.Pittendrigh@gmail.com>
wrote:

>If I go to Google and type link:montana-riverboats.com
>Google reports there are only 2 sites linking in, when
>that number used to be many more.
>
>Alexa reports 35 sites linking to http://montana-riverboats.com
>Is this disparity because of something mis-configured on my part,
>or haywire on Google's, or what?
>

May be a misunderstanding. Google is reporting the number of sites
which it has in its index which link to the site in question,
similarly, Alexa reports the number of sites it knows about linking to
that site.

Both figures will be inaccurate, firstly they may be out of date,
sites which formerly linked may no longer exist or link. Secondly
Google and Alexa are only reporting links they know of, which is not
to say there are not other sites linking which have not been spidered
by those applications.

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On Feb 27, 6:28 am, comme...@probertencyclopaedia.com (Matt Probert)
wrote:

> May be a misunderstanding. Google is reporting the number of sites
> which it has in its index which link to the site in question,
> similarly, Alexa reports the number of sites it knows about linking to
> that site.
>

That makes sense. However there are many sites that link
to montana-riverboats.com, that are indexed by Google, that
are not appearing in their link: report, like links on Dmoz,
phpclasses.org (where I have several public domain page generation
classes, that get downloaded frequently).

So, if Google's link:domain feature is supposed to report all sites
in their indexed set of pages, that link to that domain, then it's
currently
a broken system. Or something else as yet unexplained is going on.

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:49:16 +0100, darnel <Sandy.Pittendrigh@gmail.com>
wrote:

> So, if Google's link:domain feature is supposed to report all sites
> in their indexed set of pages, that link to that domain, then it's
> currently a broken system. Or something else as yet unexplained is going
> on.

As you have correctly spotted - IF this feature is supposed to. But it is
not, and link: command doesn't list ALL links Google knows of. It displays
only some subset of these. Much more links is displayed in the Google
webmaster tools.

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Hi Darnel,

A ways back Google purposefully 'broke' their link: command because too
many web tools were scraping the results. The good news is that Google's
Webmaster Central recently added a new set of tools that lets you
examine internal and external links to your web site. If you do not have
a Webmaster Tools account yet this is a great reason to get one. IMOHO
it is the most useful metric they provide. The new tool does not display
every link Google knows about, but I have to say I was astonished at
first look.

Prior to Webmaster Tools most folks used Yahoo! to view incoming links.
I now suggest both Yahoo! Site Explorer and Google Webmaster Tools.

As an aside, does anyone remember when AllTheWeb.com, prior to its
purchase and merging, showed the most inbound links of all the search
engines? There was a time when ATW had Google and Yahoo! beat hands down.

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On 27 Feb 2007 04:51:33 -0800, "darnel" <Sandy.Pittendrigh@gmail.com>
wrote:

>If I go to Google and type link:montana-riverboats.com
>Google reports there are only 2 sites linking in, when
>that number used to be many more.
>
>Alexa reports 35 sites linking to http://montana-riverboats.com
>Is this disparity because of something mis-configured on my part,
>or haywire on Google's, or what?

Try
link: montana-riverboats.com

and not
link:montana-riverboats.com

link: montana-riverboats.com gives 65 results.

plh
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By default Google has broken its LinkDomain: function. This was done
because of scraping tools. The best way to check your inbound links is
to use a combination of Yahoo! Site Explorer and Google Webmaster Tools.
Neither will show all of your links, but together it will give you about
the best estimate your are going to get.

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SEOcritique.com schreef:
> By default Google has broken its LinkDomain: function. This was done
> because of scraping tools.

No, it was not broken by default. It went kaput, broken a few years (hm,
a few years already? Well, time on the net is so.....) ago. And
perhapse the reason was scraping tools.

The best way to check your inbound links is
> to use a combination of Yahoo! Site Explorer and Google Webmaster Tools.
> Neither will show all of your links, but together it will give you about
> the best estimate your are going to get.


Tip, hint: Could you please quote some part of the posting you are
responding to. This way after a few days, the posting still makes sense.


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