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Originally Posted by Mel
the + operator indicates a term must be included in the results while the Google link: operator is there to find those links which google is willing to show you.
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link:www.beenbuzzed.com will reveal how many backlinks with a
PR>X, where X is unknown but usually assumed to be 3 or 4 or thereabouts - Google calls this "a sample of links to your site"
+"www.beenbuzzed.com" will find all occurrences of the phrase inside the quotes (i.e., your domain name in this case) within the Google index, so it shows you all backlinks in the database
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I much prefer to use alltheweb to find out the true picture of how many links a site has, For an even better solution download the free link popularity checker from www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/ which will give you the number of all your inbound links on several search engines.
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But of course AllTheWeb isn't only giving you the backlinks Google knows about, and link poularity checker doesn't tell you what the backlinks are, only how many there are, so it all depends on what question you're asking...