Backlinks not appearing in google

**moshin** · 05-06-07

Hi guys,

For one of my websites i have created hundreds of back-links, now the back-links appear fine in most of the search engines like, MSN, Yahoo Altavista, but nothing appears in google, its been up for almost a year now, and the strange thing is that all my other websites are showing back-links in Google

. (i cant disclose the site url but if anyone else faced a similar problem? would appreciate if they share how they dealt with this problem.)

**Fraser** · 05-06-07

If you want an accurate report of backlinks from google you would be best to use webmaster central which gives you a lot more info once you prove that you own the site.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/

**user1635** · 06-06-07

As a googler said in the google webmasters group:

"the link: operator only shows a sample of the links that point to your
site, not all of them. So there is no need to worry.."

so google has most likely picked up all the links that the other search engines have.

**moshin** · 06-06-07

thanks for your comments guys, really appreciate it : so i think the problem is not serious at all,its only strange that that Google is not showing back-links but i do get a lot of traffic from Google. Its just that im being curious to know " Y is it happening", sometimes you know it makes you curiously wonder, what could happen to my rankings if i had all the back-links showing correctly on Goolge? will i be next to myspace on alexa

**keemo** · 01-07-07

Google are known for being rubbish at showing backlinks. Try Yahoo site explorer instead at http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com
Just type the website address, press explore url and then click the Inlinks tab. You'll then see all the URLs that link back to your site

**Bish** · 08-07-07

This is very normal. Otherwise it would be easy for any SEO to sit there and reverse engineer another sites backlinks and work out how to manipulate the index.

I find it useful to use www.alltheweb.com, this gives the most consistently accurate results I have found yet.

I find they list them in a reasonably useful 'page strength' sequence too.

Bish

**tbp** · 08-07-07

Have a look at the google webmaster tools, which shows a lot of your backlinks.

For my own sites, it shows more back links that yahoo does.

**moshin** · 06-08-07

thanks bish alltheweb.com is a good source aswell

**Keith** · 06-08-07

I'm seeing changes in Google backlinks today, dunno if its a blip or the long awaited backlnk update

**moredial** · 07-08-07

Usually google only lists a backlink if it has a PR4 or more.

If you want to keep up with who is linking to you, just set up a google alert on your domain name and/or for link:domain.name and google will send you a list of who else out there has you mentioned on their site.

**Leeky** · 10-08-07

Google shows only 2730 backlinks to our site, but yahoo shows a whopping 473,594 backlinks.

Lee

**chenhua** · 15-08-07

my site pr2
but i can't find backlinks in google

**moredial** · 16-08-07

Originally Posted by chenhua

my site pr2
but i can't find backlinks in google

You find backlinks by using the features at Yahoo, not Google.

If you only have a PR2 then you need to work on some quality links to your site - and not links from link pages. A PR update is overdue so you may not be seeing your current PR.

**moshin** · 21-08-07

Mystery resolved...

My site was banned by most search engines, Google was first to block all backlinks and then my entire site disappeared from Google listings, until recently search referrals from yahoo and msn were doing okay but when it started to decline thats when i went into my google wemaster tools and found my website ranked for some adult content, the site under question is built in joomla and one of the forum section within the site was open to public, allowed anyone to post any message without moderation, it was a horrible mistake by my webmaster who did not receive any emails for moderation since there was no check in place, where i found atleast 900 spam links posted since Jan this year and growing on daily basis. I have deleted the forum section entirely and im hoping for my website to bounce back,

now i have no idea what should i do next and how long will it take before i get my rankings back