Links Galore to Links No More!

[JKomp]

On msn i have around 180 links to my site www.jkomp.com but on Google i only have 7 and sometimes it only shows 1. Why is this?

[Josh Huxley]

The reason being Google does not usually provide you with all the backlinks which point to your site. I find that msn.com provides more or less all the links which does.

[JKomp]

Thanks, but that is clearly evident from mere observation. What I am asking is why? Is it to do with the recent idea that google is full? Is it another sign that msn is on the incline while Google is wavering and stagnating? Or am i just subscribing to a twisted Ptolemian view of the universe, with me and my site, rather than the earth, as the centre?

[jestep]

Google only updates their backlinks every 3 or 4 weeks.

The reason that I think that they do this, is because they don't want you to see every link that they know about. It gives away too much information about how they index sites, and how they value links. It also helps protect a lot of webmasters from their competitors going and getting the same links into their sites.

I don't think it has anything to do with the idea that the google index filling up, as they have been doing this for a long time.

[JKomp]

Thanks Jestep, but would that suggest that I had got all my links (save 7) over the last month, which is not the case. Surely there has to be another reason for Google only to show 7 out of my 191 links?!

[janeth]

Google does not want you to know what all they see. So they will only show some of the links.

If they showed all the links they counted it would make it easer for people to rank on Google.

[freehits]

This is proven by my competition using the google links to copy all of my inbound links.

I am glad they are not all there for this one reason and likely more.

[timmathews.com]

I agree 100% with the opinions that the Google team will not show you all of the inbound links, preventing:
1.) competitor sniping
2.) Algorythm research

This is good and bad for us.

[noel_x99]

I figured Google wasn't showing me all the links. MSN and to a lesser extent Yahoo are showing me what I expect. Google shows tons of my internal pages linking to my home page...and I didn't think it was supposed to. I know I have a number of good sites that link and I've never seen them in Google links.

Can you assume if Google is aware of the site, that it would count your IBL from that site?

[timmathews.com]

IMO:
The pages in your site linking to your root url add a "little" to your link popularity.
You need to find people to link to you.
I have PR 4 in Google.com for timmathews.com, and I will exchange a link with you in my bottom navigation if you return the favor.
Let me know.