Google's link command

I don't understand this at all. When I type in link:www.mydomain.com in
google, my main page and just a few of the sub categories show up (by
the way, it just shows one level down and no further). Not one link
from anyplace other than my own page shows up. Now when I ask google to
show me all pages containing mydomain.com, a bunch of pages show up
mostly from sites where I submitted my url (like business listings,
genealogy sites, etc.).

What's the purpose of using the "link" command. Is that just to show
the pages that were submitted by myself? Is it supposed to show
everybody else's' site that has a link to my domain? Any clarification
on what this 'link' command does would be helpful.

Barb

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:42:02 -0600, CyberCafe <pkbk (AT) badger (DOT) tds.net>
wrote:

I don't understand this at all. When I type in link:www.mydomain.com in
google, my main page and just a few of the sub categories show up (by
the way, it just shows one level down and no further). Not one link
from anyplace other than my own page shows up. Now when I ask google to
show me all pages containing mydomain.com, a bunch of pages show up
mostly from sites where I submitted my url (like business listings,
genealogy sites, etc.).

What's the purpose of using the "link" command. Is that just to show
the pages that were submitted by myself? Is it supposed to show
everybody else's' site that has a link to my domain? Any clarification
on what this 'link' command does would be helpful.

Google never has shown all the backlinks one has to their site.
Currently the random sampling will mostly consist of PR3 and lower
pages containing a link your way - a few PR4 may be shared but not
many.

Doing a search on your domain name itself will show pages that contain
that term - so not limited to links. [This is not taking into
consideration how some links are shared that don't count as backlinks
- due to being shared through a script or something].

Doing link: on Yahoo will give you a better idea of # of backlinks you
have - although even that may not be the whole 10 yards of links you
may have, it will be a better idea than what Google shares.

Carol

On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 05:48:57 GMT, from_you (AT) nomail (DOT) com (C.W.) wrote:

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:42:02 -0600, CyberCafe <pkbk (AT) badger (DOT) tds.net
wrote:

I don't understand this at all. When I type in link:www.mydomain.com in
google, my main page and just a few of the sub categories show up (by
the way, it just shows one level down and no further). Not one link
from anyplace other than my own page shows up. Now when I ask google to
show me all pages containing mydomain.com, a bunch of pages show up
mostly from sites where I submitted my url (like business listings,
genealogy sites, etc.).

What's the purpose of using the "link" command. Is that just to show
the pages that were submitted by myself? Is it supposed to show
everybody else's' site that has a link to my domain? Any clarification
on what this 'link' command does would be helpful.


Google never has shown all the backlinks one has to their site.
Currently the random sampling will mostly consist of PR3 and lower
pages containing a link your way - a few PR4 may be shared but not
many.

Doing a search on your domain name itself will show pages that contain
that term - so not limited to links. [This is not taking into
consideration how some links are shared that don't count as backlinks
- due to being shared through a script or something].

Doing link: on Yahoo will give you a better idea of # of backlinks you
have - although even that may not be the whole 10 yards of links you
may have, it will be a better idea than what Google shares.

Carol

Anyway, why worry? You got a few, you need more. You got more than
everyone else in your category/keyword, you're cool. If you need more
info, you shouldn't be footling around with the link command which is
far from precise and has never been anything else. Specialist software
would be Arelis and Optilink.

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Thanks for the info folks. I learned something from you two.

Barb


CyberCafe wrote:

I don't understand this at all. When I type in link:www.mydomain.com in
google, my main page and just a few of the sub categories show up (by
the way, it just shows one level down and no further). Not one link
from anyplace other than my own page shows up. Now when I ask google to
show me all pages containing mydomain.com, a bunch of pages show up
mostly from sites where I submitted my url (like business listings,
genealogy sites, etc.).

What's the purpose of using the "link" command. Is that just to show
the pages that were submitted by myself? Is it supposed to show
everybody else's' site that has a link to my domain? Any clarification
on what this 'link' command does would be helpful.

Barb