B.O. (Backlink Obsession)

• Posted by B Jones on September 9th, 2005 - Comment on this Post »

I just read the latest post from Matt Cutts Blog. In the post, he addresses the topic of Google Updates, and verifies what many already know:

Google updates its index data, including backlinks and PageRank, continually and continuously. We only export new backlinks, PageRank, or directory data every three months or so

It is funny how a Google Backlink update can dominate the popular SEO forums, both speculation of when the next update will be, and also verifying when it actually happens.

Why do we care so much, when Google only shows a fraction of the actual backlinks for a site anyway? Maybe because doing well in Google means so much more than any of the other popular search engines. Honestly, I don’t see what good it does to only show part of the backlinks, other than to taunt SEO’s / SEM’s.

Ive said it before, but in case I didn’t say it here…USE YAHOO TO CHECK BACKLINKS!!!

Either use the Backlink Analyzer on this site, or just do it directly in Yahoo with their link command:

linkdomain:www.domain.com -site:domain.com

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