Google IBL's

[wmrobwl]

Hey everyone,

I had a quick question. I know that the link:domain.com command is never completely accurate in Google, but it is supposed to show SOME links. For a few years this number fluctuated for one of our sites, but for the past year has shown around 150-200 on average. I checked it the other day and now its 0. I checked some of my competitors (to see if maybe it was just Google acting up) and they still showed their usual numbers.

This site is still in the index (site:domain.com) and still fairs well in the SERP's. Should I be worried? What should I do?

[chowell]

Have you registered your website with Google's Webmaster Tools system yet?

They have a better backlinks report feature in there that is suppose to tell you "most" of the links pointing to your website - it's much better than the link:domain.com command. Matt Cutts did say that the list of backlinks doesn't reflect links that count or don't count towards your rankings; they're just the links detected.

Have you also tried using the following variation of the link: command?

link:www.domain.com

Google may have wised up to the fact that domain.com isn't the way your site is setup; rather the www.domain.com is the preferred format. **The preference can also be setup in Webmaster Tools after you verify you own the site.

[nazcreative]

Hello,

I agree with chowell. If you haven't already, sign up for Google webmaster tools. Located here:
https://www.google.com/accounts/Serv...Fhl%3Den&hl=en

This way you can submit your xml sitemap. Works wonders.
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Dan Naz - Naz Creative
Integrated Marketing Company

[craigmn3]

It would be helpful if you posted your domain so that other's could check it for you and make sure the results you are getting are consitant.

[Nick Spence]

Google's webmaster tools showed no links to one of my sites I monitor a lot. Had the same thing directly in Google search. However, if I put a blank after link: and before the www, it works.

Don't ask me.

~Nick

[EditFast]

I get odd results from that as well. Didn't pay much attention to it but since this post is on the topic...I get 269 results when I do a link:editfast.com and 99% of the results are from my EditFast site which strikes me as rather odd since it is supposed to find links from other sites to my site. (If I try www.editfast.com I get the same results.)

[wmrobwl]

Originally Posted by chowell

Have you registered your website with Google's Webmaster Tools system yet?

Not yet. I'm going to check it out today.

Originally Posted by chowell

Have you also tried using the following variation of the link: command?

link:www.domain.com

Google may have wised up to the fact that domain.com isn't the way your site is setup; rather the www.domain.com is the preferred format. **The preference can also be setup in Webmaster Tools after you verify you own the site.

There they are! My competitors were showing up with and without the www because they don't utilize a 301 redirect like we do on this domain. I guess this is something new Google is accounting for.

Thanks for the info!!!

[Clint1]

Originally Posted by wmrobwl

Hey everyone,

I had a quick question. I know that the link:domain.com command is never completely accurate in Google, but it is supposed to show SOME links. For a few years this number fluctuated for one of our sites, but for the past year has shown around 150-200 on average. I checked it the other day and now its 0. I checked some of my competitors (to see if maybe it was just Google acting up) and they still showed their usual numbers.

This site is still in the index (site:domain.com) and still fairs well in the SERP's. Should I be worried? What should I do?

This exact same thing has happened to me. From ~300, to 100, to 32 to 16 to 8 to 4, 3, 2, and 0. I bet your "competitors" where you said showed no change, are some "big-time" websites? And I bet your PR has dropped where your competitors' have not?

[Clint1]

Originally Posted by wmrobwl

Not yet. I'm going to check it out today.

There they are! My competitors were showing up with and without the www because they don't utilize a 301 redirect like we do on this domain. I guess this is something new Google is accounting for.

Thanks for the info!!!

I've had a 301 redirect on mine for a long time, didn't show any difference for me. I wish it did.

The www preference in the WMT console is only for the way your URL's in the index are displayed, it has nothing to do with any redirects.

[Clint1]

Originally Posted by EditFast

I get odd results from that as well. Didn't pay much attention to it but since this post is on the topic...I get 269 results when I do a link:editfast.com and 99% of the results are from my EditFast site which strikes me as rather odd since it is supposed to find links from other sites to my site. (If I try www.editfast.com I get the same results.)

Yep, it's insane. Back when I was showing maybe 16 or so, 14 of the links were my own!!! I just checked and right now they are showing 2 IBL's for me, and one is my own site! Of course Y and MS are showing thousands of IBL's.

[pathikbd]

Dear wmrobwl,

I don't know for what reason, Google seems to show only a few links for the link:domain.com command. However, Yahoo is quite good at this.

I would suggest you to use Yahoo for that. However, if you are still intersted to see Google's result, please use the Google Sitemap tool.

Here's how:

1. Get a free Google or Gmail account
2. Go to https://www.google.com/webmasters/
3. Log in with your ID & P/W
4. Add a sitemap to your account and upload a XML sitemap to your domain and verify it (you can find numerous articles how to do that)
5. If your sitemap is verified, then click the site listed in your account page
6. Click the Links tab above and beside the Sitemap tab
7. You will see a table showing a list of pages indexed by Google and the number of External links
8. Click the respective number of External Links
9. You will find a list of IBLs

I hope that's what you want.

[isharli]

The number of links that Google recognizes is upsetting. For my site, it only acknowledges 12 links... yet I know I have many times that number. Does the competitiveness of the category influence how many links that Google recognizes?

[incrediblehelp]

Originally Posted by isharli

Does the competitiveness of the category influence how many links that Google recognizes?

Probably not, but the quality of the links sure do.

[lasgas]

try with this tools to get your links and your competitors links:
http://www.backlink-checker.de/

then copy and do best than them take in consideration:
- related website, and the title and the url of the wbe page where webmaster add your backlinks
- the most important is the king: anchor text try to get more than 20 anchor text that contain evry one one or two of your keywords.
- forum posting major my back links in google webmasters tools are from forum and articles directory=====more important to get one direct links not exchange links