Hi folks,

OK...here goes...

The "link:" operator allows us to see how many websites link to your own, we all now this. If I use it in Yahoo I have 300+ links, if I use it in Google is have 2.

I'm guessing that Yahoo includes every page that it sees a link on and it's pretty fast in finding them. Does google do it after a certain timescale, i.e. once a month, or does google assign a certain relevance to the link and if it thinks it's a spam link, etc. it doesn't include it?

Are the yahoo results a good indication of how the google results will be after the next update?

Thanks

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Digital Kaos | Dreambox Guides

Yahoo indicition is no where near what your google results willl be because of the way that Yahoo counts the links is different then the way Google does it.

Google updates backlinks about once every 3 months, though some have reported that they are starting to update their backlinks more often

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Thanks MaddenGods...I've discovered that if I use the google webmasters tools it tells me I have 523 external links...that's more like it lol.

But good to know that yahoos is completely different.

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Digital Kaos | Dreambox Guides

I was wondering about this too, I did a search today and had no results in google but hundreds in yahoo. My site hasn't been up for 3 months so that must be why there's none in google.

I've been online for 2 months and have links in the webmaster tools but only 2 using the above link command.

Get a Google Webmasters account and check there.

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Digital Kaos | Dreambox Guides

Ignore the link: operator in Google. It only ever returns a meaningless small random sample of links. What is in the sample has nothing to do with what Google links google knows about and what links they use.