Nelson James
Jan 11th, 2007
Jan 11th, 2007
Google Links
One of the most common questions/concerns I get is why Google indexes less links than the other major search engines (Yahoo and MSN). Today, Matt Cutts answered this question for me. He said, “the link: operator only shows a subsample of the links to a page that we know of.” I have always told people that I thought Google actually did index the same amount of links as the other search engines and simply didn’t show users all of them, but now I can say that with some confidence. It’s always nice to be backed by Matt Cutts.
*For those of you who are new to SEO, you can see all of the links that point to your site by going to any of the three major search engines and typing in “link:www.yourwebsite.com”.