Finally! Google Shows us the Backlinks

• Posted by B Jones on February 6th, 2007 - Comment on this Post »

If you’ve ever compared Google’s link: command to that of Yahoo or MSN, you probably know how useless it is. For some reason, at some point, some one at Google decided to filter, and only show a small selection of all links to a site. Well, that has all changed now. You can now log in to your Google Webmaster Tools account, and find a plethora of link data.

I logged in and checked it out a few minutes ago, and I must say, I’m thoroughly impressed. Links are divided into 2 groups: internal and external. If you have several links from one site, each page is listed individually. It would be nice to have the option to show only domains, and not every single page, since it can be sort of overwhelming to have to dig through hundreds of links from one site, like (http://site.com/?pid=323, http://site.com/?pid=325, http://site.com/?pid=329, etc…). They did add the ability to search for specific pages, but don’t allow you do wildcard searches. I guess the ability to export a spreadsheet of every single link sort of makes up for that though.

Here’s a link to the official announcement from Google.

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