I know most of the time I am posting to teach something about SEO. This time I am posting a question a new client asks. See if you can help them.
I go to google and type in link:www.mywebsite.com and get 0 results.
I go to www.marketleap.com and www.mywebsite.com has a total of 3,188 inbound links, 0 in google, and 3,188 in yahoo.
I go to www.linkpopularity.com and get about the same results.
Now, I understand all of that, however, when I type link: www.mywebsite.com into google, (note: this time I put a space after the colon) I get 16,100 results. Now, many of those are internal links, but others are from websites, article directories, web directories, etc. No link farms or bad neighborhoods.
My question is not whether or not I need to build up my link popularity. That’s pretty obvious. But why if those other websites, like www.EzineArticles.com, www.EvanCarmichael.com, www.BlogCatalog.com, etc., which are top notch websites are linking to my website, why do they not show up in a link popularity check?
Link Popularity Question…
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Is it because Google has now stopped counting links from article and blog directories?
Close. Google may have stopped counting links from the resource boxes in article directories to be more specific. Articles are still being indexed so links in the body of the articles still get followed.
Article directories were never there to help people build their link popularity. They were always intended to provide free content to webmasters for their websites and blogs, which they still do.
So if you write quality articles with original content and a webmaster reuses that content, you get a link from their website or blog from the resource box.
Links in the body of the article that are used as a reference to something you wrote about will get crawled either way.
I will check with my site: http://www.wirelessoverview.net
When I search link:www.wirelessoverview.net on Google, it has showed no results. This is a type of backlink checker. I have no results because my site is new and Google update backlink according to a specific period (for example: 3 months).
When I search link: http://www.wirelessoverview.net on Google, I mean I’m checking two keywords “link” and “www.wirelessoverview.net”.
Thanks!