Google Opens up about backlinks

February 6, 2007 by Affiliate Profit Center
Filed under: News, Search Engine Marketing

Backlinks have always hit or miss with Google. Using the link command in the Google search box would return a seemingly random selection of a websites backlinks. Is Google crediting you for a specific linkback? Just because it’s not in the SERPs doesn’t mean you’re not getting credited for it.

Well today, the great Google Gods have given us a few new crumbs to play with. In the webmaster tools section there is a new tab called “Links” clicking it on reveals a listing of your sites page, each entry shows the number of backlinks that Google sees for that page – clicking on that number brings you a detail listing of those pages. It’s very cool to see all these new pages linking to you —is that all of them? I don’t know, but it’s definitely more then the link command show.

Have fun playing around with this cool new tool. If you don’t already have a Google webmaster account, get one —it’s free. Enjoy!

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