Hi to all

I have been building links for my suite since last six months. But when I check my links in google webmaster tool, it shows only few links. so do you think it shows all urls ...

It shows what it shows.

Link counting it a pointless "task" anyway.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

It shows what it shows.

Link counting it a pointless "task" anyway.

Thanks chrishirst, I have read your article on counting links, very helpful.

Link building is a completely a pointless task? Does that mean that we should just build a website/blog and not create any links to it at all, if not, then at which point does it become useless to build links.

Ok, I read your article, you prefer to build the RIGHT kind of links, but don't links just act like doors to your website? The more doors (in the right niche site of course), the more opportunities for people to see your site.

Please help me in this link building business, is it 100% futile?

Oh boy! Am I going to be patronising now!


I said link COUNTING, thats C O U N T I N G not "link building" the spelling of which B U I L D I N G.

Now, if you get those two concepts mixed up, I would suggest that Search Optimisation and/or Search Marketing is NOT something you should be involved in.

Relatively yahoo, google included way is not open to the public , so the display of link is not accurate, often has not changed for a long time.
Since google included results are not in the public, so the actual included links are more than showed included links .
You'd better see yahoo's link results. Updated quickly, more accurately.

Just work on the incoming links.....the site checkers are not accurate....
Google says that I have 80+ links to a blog..
My software says 3 thousand.....
Just keep building...but there is more to SEO than links....

Originally Posted by rohnsmith

Hi to all

I have been building links for my suite since last six months. But when I check my links in google webmaster tool, it shows only few links. so do you think it shows all urls ...

Google's WMT AND LINK: operator output BOTH show only a "sample" of your backlinks.

Originally Posted by rohnsmith

Hi to all

I have been building links for my suite since last six months. But when I check my links in google webmaster tool, it shows only few links. so do you think it shows all urls ...

It's just so common that Google dont show all of your backlinks. They only show few of it.

^Another tool not mentioned here is the Seo moz Open Site Explorer which can also show you the anchor text distribution, but you have to pay a premium to see detailed results, but its still a great tool

yahoo is more accurate i think and it show all dofollow and nofollow links but you should focus and invest your time on building links not counting them

in link building the very important thing is the quality of the likns you create, the more the better rule doesnt work if your links are bad)