Link Count Updates At Google & Yahoo Search

Mar 7, 2007 at 10:08am ET by Barry Schwartz

This morning I reported that both Yahoo and Google are updating the number of links they account for each site. Yahoo! Search Link Update shows a number of webmasters reporting both increases and decreases in the number of links Yahoo is reporting at their Site Explorer Tool. Google Link Update Within Webmaster Central’s Link Tool shows that currently, all reports from webmasters show an increase in the number of backlinks reported by Google Webmaster Central.

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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2 COMMENTS ON Link Count Updates At Google & Yahoo Search

Mark Barrera, March 7th, 2007 at 9:09 pm ET:

I am seeing that Google updated the link count but isn’t showing URLs of the newly reported links yet.

rustybrick, March 8th, 2007 at 10:05 am ET:

Yes, you should see the actual links updated within a day or so. Vanessa Fox told me that, and more details here.

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