For example, when I type into the Yahoo search bar "link:www.website.com" is comes up with 57 inlinks.
But when I type "link:www.website.com" into Google is displays that there are no links. This happens with all websites; it seems they all pick up on different amounts of links and sometimes the amounts differ drastically.
Is there a reason behind this?
Thanks in advance
Different search engines have different methods of "discounting" backlinks. Most SEO experts think that all the major search engines see every backlink, but their algorithm discounts the ones they think are irrelevant or artificial. The best backlinks come from relevant websites with high pagerank.
Because different search engines have different algorithms they use for searching.
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Different search engines have different methods of "discounting" backlinks. Most SEO experts think that all the major search engines see every backlink, but their algorithm discounts the ones they think are irrelevant or artificial. The best backlinks come from relevant websites with high pagerank.
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Different companies, different policies, different algorithms.
It is well known that Google does not show all backlinks to a website when using the "link:" function. They do however, show all (if not, almost all) your external backlinks when you sign up to use their Webmaster Tools…
Google Webmaster Tools: (signup required)
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
As for Yahoo, use their Site Explorer tool to get a comprehensive analysis of all backlinks (aka inlinks)…
Yahoo Site Explorer: (no signup required)
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
So, again, different companies, different policies. It just requires some extra steps to get what you want.
Happy backlink analysis!
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