Google Releases New Link Reporting Tools
Jim Messenger — 02/5/07
For years, Google’s link: command has deliberately failed to show all the links to a website. This came out of Google’s fear that site owners simply wanted the data to try and manipulate rankings — which was pretty true. Instead, they only provided a sampling of backlinks. Today, that changes…
Filed in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Webmaster Tools with 8 comments
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February 6th, 2007 at 8:36 pmJim have you played with this tool yet? Have read it is showing links that have no follows attached to them.
February 6th, 2007 at 10:06 pmKen,
What you have read is correct. Google’s new link reporting tool is including “nofollows”.
February 7th, 2007 at 8:12 amDo they show that they are no follows, or just lump them all together?
February 7th, 2007 at 9:45 amlumpsum all together because it is a superficial scan rather than any that follows google’s algorithmic commands
February 11th, 2007 at 8:30 amPersonally, I have not seen a huge difference in the information I was getting via the site: search on Google itself and the information they are providing via the webmaster tools. Maybe it’s just too soon to tell for me?
March 27th, 2007 at 10:55 amGary,
The link: operator search through Google only shows a small sampling of the links to your site.
The External links Page at Webmaster Tools shows all external links to your site and also what pages they link to.
March 27th, 2007 at 11:11 amJim thats true, but they seem to be order in alphabetical order. In contrast to Yahoo ordering them by their value:
July 25th, 2007 at 6:40 amYahoo = 1
Google = 0