It's been a few years, but I'm back in the business full-time. I could have swore there was/is a way to check the number backlinks Google sees for a site. Something like linkback: www.yoursitehere.com or something like that.

Am I crazy? Did it ever exist and was disabled? I noticed that using SEO-Guys linkback tool, G always reads "0". So I am not sure what to think.

Thanks for the answer.

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Prescott Computer Repair

Just register your site(s) with Google Webmaster Tools. You will be able to check many things.

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I really cannot recommend anyplace or anyone, so don't ask...

LOL... well you can try link:www.example.com but for years now Google have been giving a random sample of links equivalent to about 10% of your "real" link count.

You might want to sign up for the Google Webmaster Tools to get a better idea but again you don't get a complete picture of your link profile (I think).

Cheers,
Paz.

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10.3 million entries for Hotels in Turkey but I'm still chipping away.

Weren't people using site explorer of yahoo for this... dunno, never looked at that, but it seemed to be better than google at that... from what I read on forums...

Thanks for the tips - I'll check out G's Webmaster Tools and get started.

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Prescott Computer Repair

Even Yahoo aren't being cooperative on link count these days. I think the acid test is the Wemaster Tools report, but if we really need a raw link count we used paid services such as majesticseo.

Cheers,
Paz.

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10.3 million entries for Hotels in Turkey but I'm still chipping away.

Humm... I never looked at those link: or linkdomain: for a very long time... cause what does it change really. One thing I noticed is that nofollowed links are listed in the webmastertool... if those are worthless... then the report itself is also worthless in a way...

I'm also seeing that nofollow (and image links) even are increasingly reported in the webmaster tools but my feeling is that both can help. Whatever I think of the report; I don't think either are useless!

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10.3 million entries for Hotels in Turkey but I'm still chipping away.

Easy test to see... I popped about 1600 nofollow links to some targets...

Ok... webmastertool reports almost 1500 links, from about 4-5 it had when I popped the nofollow links and... nothing changed in the serps... might take a few seconds more... and of course, the sitewides may only count for one link if they do...

So, the nofollow links weight seems to be ignored properly... so unless you go an monitor all the links that are followed... the webmastertool is just giving you the amount of instances regardless of if they have any weight. But it did find basically all the new links...