SEO question: Why are all the links not showing up when I google search my website?
I type in link:(URL) in google but my websites that have a direct link to me on their homepage aren’t even showing up? What’s wrong? When I search on Alexa’s links, they show up. Please help! Thanks!
6 Responses
memetrader
06 Mar 2010
Tim
06 Mar 2010
Google Search finds and recognizes these links through META TAGS. Now, i’m not sure if you’re any familiaring with scripting languages but if you have META TAGS on your websites, it should show all the links to your website and all the info in your website.
If you haven’t heard about this before, research the internet for META TAGS, you can find good tutorials that help you create them yourself, it’s really easy 
eww
06 Mar 2010
If your site is less than a year old, or the sites that you are linked to are less than a year old and/or have a low PR (google PR toolbar), then the link command will not show them.
Even if your site is more than a year old, Google’s link command does not portray an accurate representation of how many links are pointing to you or even how many Google is counting.
kpraveenkumars
06 Mar 2010
Google shows PR 4 above links…
Find SEO info at http://www.praveenkodur.com/blog/category/search-engine-optimization/
Brian P
06 Mar 2010
memetrader is right the Google link command only shows a sample of the links.
So I guess you’d like to know how to see all the links that google sees.
Answer is easy. Sign-up for google webmaster tools here
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
Register your site and after a while – in the links tab all the incoming links to your pages THAT GOOGLE COUNTS will be shown.
Note you dont need a sitemap.
Hope this helps
Patyy
06 Mar 2010
Hello,
You are not the only one in this. You see, Google is not so reliable to check your backlinks. Use Yahoo and MSN to check backlinks.
Amazing that such a simple question should have two answers that are completely wrong!
The Google link command only ever shows a sample of the links that Google knows about.
To quote Google: "To find a sampling of pages that link to a URL (for example, http://www.stanford.edu), go to the Google Advanced Search page at http://www.google.com/advanced_search and enter the URL in question into the "Links" search box. Alternatively, you can perform a link search directly from the Google search box by typing [ link:Stanford.edu ] or [ link:www.Stanford.edu ]. There should be no space between "link:" and the URL".
Notice the words ‘…sampling of pages…’.
Use the link command in Yahoo for much better results.